A rare English delftware coffee cup, probably London, circa 1760

Painted in blue with flowers below rockwork, the flat handle with horizontal blue lines.

Height 6.5cm

Delftware cups were made in considerable numbers from the late 17th to mid 18th centuries, but are rare survivors. The distinctive profile of this cup suggests a London attribution, although they were also made in Liverpool and Bristol.

Condition: light wear to rim, 3mm chip to footrim and to handle terminal.

See Archer M., Delftware, 1997, p.350, H6 for a cup in the V&A collection attributed to Lambeth; but also a cup with this profile illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, 1982, p.131, 9.16.
See Garry Atkins, An Exhibition of English Pottery, 1996, no.15 for a delftware cup with similar high footrim, with ochre rim and blue line painted handle, attributed to London c.1740
Also Garry Atkins, An Exhibition of English Pottery, 1998, no.19 for a small delftware cup attributed to Liverpool.
And Garry Atkins, Exhibition, 2004, no.21, for a delftware cup with similar high footrim and ochre rim, with blue dash and rounded handle, again described as possibly Liverpool.
See also Austin J., British Delft at Williamsburg 1994, pp.120-121 for cups of similar shape.

£1,890