A RARE DELFTWARE SMALL CANDLESTICK

A RARE DELFTWARE SMALL CANDLESTICK

LAMBETH, C.1650-80

the urn shaped socket above a dished drip pan and on a conical foot, with manganese and blue banded decoration, the foot with blue stiff leaf decoration

10cm high

Provenance

Acquired from DM & P Manheim, Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, 1966.

The Ida Clarke Collection, inventory number 71.

Catalogue Note

Please see Christie's, 'Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection', 25 May 2011, lots 167 and 168 for two similar English Delftware candlesticks including one with similar banded and stiff leaf decoration and another decorated in blue and manganese.