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height 7 5/8 in. (19.4cm)

Christian Wilhelm, Pickleherring, painted around the bulbous body with birds either perched on rockwork or in flight amidst flowering plants, and inscribed beneath the handle 1628 between scroll, diagonal line-and-dot and zigzag-pattern borders around the neck, shoulder and foot. Haircrack to handle and minor glaze chips.

PROVENANCE

D. M. & P. Manheim Antiques, New York;
Jonathan Horne Antiques, Ltd., London

NOTE

Christian Wilhelm is the name associated with the first pottery to manufacture tin-glazed wares at Pickleherring in the St. Olave parish of Southwark. He is first recorded as having established a business there manufacturing smalt (a cobalt pigment derived from ground glass) as early as 1604; and is generally thought to have established his pottery circa 1618 with the arrival of potters John Rokenson and Christian Lowest. The 'Bird-on-a-Rock' pattern of the present example, adapted from a Chinese design on Ming porcelain, is one those attributed to his Pickleherring pottery. This bottle is one of six recorded dated examples, each bearing the same year beneath the handle: 1628. Four of the other five bottles are illustrated by Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, pp. 309-310, nos. 1250-1253, one of which is also illustrated in addition to the fifth bottle by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, p. 245, nos. D218 and D219. A seventh undated bottle painted with the same bird-on-a-rock pattern is in the collection of the Chipstone Foundation and is illustrated by Jonathan Horne, Collection of Early English Pottery, part XIII, no. 353.