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               DELFTWARE Beverage Wares 
D296. JUG                                                               
               jugs 
Probably Southwark, London 
Dated 1662 
H.: 111/2" (29.2 cm); 
Diam. (body): 8 1/2" (21.6 cm); 
Diam, (with handle): 10" (25.4 cm) 
BODY CLAY: Fine-grained orange-buff. 
TIN GLAZE: White, slightly transpar- 
ent, flaking in places. Pitting and poorly 
adhered patches on interior. Overall, 
excluding where bottom wiped clean. 
SHAPE: Thrown, with pronounced 
molding at base of neck. Handle flat on 
interior, grooved on exterior (with 
fragment of another pot adhered during 
firing), with curled lower terminal 
Bottom slightly concave. 
DECORATION: Painted. Central 
reserve with Charles II and Catherine of 
Braganza and inscription "HMS/1662/CR2 
QDK" set among exterior scenes with 
Chinese figures, flowers, and buildings. 
Borders composed of horizontal lines 
and bands with, respectively, wavy, 
flowering vine; zigzagged lozenges and 
graduated curvilinear motifs; and inter- 
locking S-scrolls. 
Published: Lipski and Archer, Doted Delft- 
ware, no. 974; Grigsby, Dated Longridge 
Delftwore and Slipwore, pp. 878-879, pl. 5. 
Ex coil. T7 G. Burn, Rous Lench. 
1. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 973. 
2. Ibid., nos. 760, 765 (1663, 1668 cups); 
Manchester, Greg Collection, no. 63 11666 cup). 
3. Rackham, Glaisher, vol. 2, pl. 83, no. 1311; 
I tpski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 969. 
4, See Burlington (1914), pl. 30, case D, no. 47, 
for an unusual portrait of Charles ("CR") and 
Catherine ("KR") painted inside a porringer. 
5. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, no. 1594. 
6. Atkins, Exhibition (1997), no. 10. 
7. Rackham, Glaisher, vol. 1, no. 2218. 
8. Archer, V&A, no. A.56; Britton, Bristol, 
no. 3.10. 
Only one jug other than the example shown here is known to bear a royal 
portrait; that one shows a three-quarter-length image of Charles II alone
in cer- 
emonial garb (with ermined robe over clothing, rather than armor) and holding
an orb and scepter. The 1660 date on that vessel commemorates Charles's coro-
nation. The 1662 date on the Longridge jug memorializes his marriage to 
Catherine (see Time Line, pp. 12-13).1 (The D in Catherine's "Q@K"
inscription 
perhaps is an accidental carryover from "CR2D," often representing
Charles 
"the second.") The reserve border on the 1660 jug is a slightly
pear-shaped 
version of the type seen here; the reserve is set against ship scenes much
like 
those on a 1650 dated Apothecaries' arms jug that relates closely to the
Long- 
ridge vessel in shape." For stylistically different portraits of Charles
II and 
Catherine on other shapes, see numbers D8-D10, D14, D15, D225, D239. 
   Rare parallels for the extraordinary schematic Chinese figures (with small
heads and perfunctory features) holding flags or baskets of flowers, towering
over buildings, and being dwarfed by giant plants and flowers are found on
three large display drug jars. Two of these have pseudogadrooned borders
(see 
no. D394) and huge daisylike flowers; one of them is dated 1658 and has Apothe-
caries' Company arms and tall, standing Chinese figures, one holding a flag;'
the other has similar standing figures, one of whom holds a basket of flowers.,,
On the third jar are giant flowers, buildings with domes, and seated and
stand- 
ing figures, one with a flag. 
   Based on their decoration, date, and the quantity of delftware thought
to 
have been made there, the jars and Longridge jug probably were produced in
Southwark, perhaps at a single workshop. Trees with dotted outlines resem-
bling one on the jug and comparable, but less sketchily drawn, buildings
with 
towers and domed roofs ornament a 1675 dated dish and one made around 
1668.1 Evidence indicates that both of these dishes are from London. 
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