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A rare pair of English delftware wall pockets, circa 1760 image 1
A rare pair of English delftware wall pockets, circa 1760 image 2
Lot 36

A rare pair of English delftware wall pockets, circa 1760

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare pair of English delftware wall pockets, circa 1760

Probably Liverpool, modelled as fish, the scales and fins moulded in high relief and charmingly picked out in blue, a sense of rushing water denoted by the delicate blue decoration to the sides of their heads, pierced for suspension, 20.7cm long (2)

Footnotes

A pair of similar wall pockets with polychrome decoration is illustrated by Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection (2000), p.422, no.D379 but the present lot appears to be the only recorded pair in blue and white. The modelling is more detailed on the present monochrome version, with the fish scales simulated individually with light moulding. Most asymmetrical pairs of delftware wall pockets occur as mirror images of each other, but the small number of recorded pairs of fish pockets are all of identical form.

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