A VERY RARE ENGLISH DELFTWARE 'BLEU PERSAN' SMALL MUG CIRCA 1680-90 |

probably London, of globular form with a straight neck applied with a scroll handle, the blue-ground exterior splashed in white.

The Collection of Professor F. H. Garner, O. B. E., sold, Sotheby's, London, October 6, 1964, lot 140
Collection of the late Joseph V. Vizcarra, bearing label, sold, Sotheby's New York, April 13, 1984, lot 379
Jonathan Horne, London, April 1984
Vogel Collection no. 402.1

F.H. Garner, English Delftware, London, 1948, pl. 30A
F.H. Garner and Michael Archer, English Delftware, London, 1972, pl. 49A

In good condition and appearance. Typical areas of glaze loss to top edge of rim and some minor glaze flakes to foot rim. Some glaze flakes to extremities of handle.
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A mug of this form and decoration is published by John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1994, p. 105, no. 91, where the author notes London as an attribution based on the form. A third mug is published by Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles, London, 1997, p. 247, C11. A further example was sold, Sotheby's, London, February 10 1959, lot 11. Dark blue sherds with white splashes have been excavated in Jamestown, Virginia, though it is uncertain whether they were produced in England or France.