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Vase

Date1670-1700

OriginEngland, Staffordshire

MediumEarthenware, lead-glazed (slipware)

DimensionsOverall: 5 3/4 x 4 1/2in. (14.6 x 11.4cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Antique Collectors' Guild

Object number2011-8

DescriptionSlipware flower vase of ovoid form with three spouts issuing from the shoulder alternating with three applied "ram's horn" scrolls. All these below a frilled rim. The body of the vase is covered in a pale slip ground and on the lower portion decorated with a combed and swirled brown slip. The vessel is supported by a circular, spreading foot.
Label TextSeveral vases of this form were made in English tin-glazed earthenware, but no other slipware flower containers of this type are recorded. This vase was clearly made in imitation of a seventeenth-century delftware example and was perhaps made in slipware because Staffordshire potters did not produce tin-glazed earthenware.
ProvenanceChristie's, New York: Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection, 17th and 18th Century British Pottery. January, 2011.

Longridge Collection, Syd Levethan

Jonathan Horne, London, 1998.