A Very Rare Pair of Delft Double Gourd Vases

Decorated with panels of finely drawn flowering plants on a powder blue ground

Probably London C1760/5

Height: 7 5/8″ (19.9 cm)

Condition: excellent, one vase does not even have a single frit in the glaze on the rim

There is some roughness to the glaze lower down

There is a damaged vase of this form in Bristol Museum (N. 3234) illustrated in colour in

‘English Delftware in the Bristol Collection by Frank Britton’  p 35

Jonathan Horne illustrates a similar vase in ‘A Collection of Early English Pottery Part XIII No.363)’

Where he mentions the Bristol Museum vase saying that it appears to be the only other recorded example

Similar decorated bottles have been attributed to Vauxhall, London, Mary or Jonathan Chilwell V’s pottery

See ‘English and Irish Delftware’  The British Museum No 137