The drawing of this type of glass, with freely drawn chinoiseries in bold colours on a densely opacified glass body, have been compared to the decoration found on Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware and on the early chinoiseries on Worcester porcelain.

Glass of this type was formerly attributed to Bristol and the delft painter William Edkins, a Staffordshire attribution is now generally accepted. 

Provenance:
Mrs Applewhaite-Abbott, Sotheby’s, 30th June 1952
Christie’s 14th December 1983, lot 50
Anthony du Boulay Collection

Exhibited:
‘Gilding the Lily’, Delomosne & Son Ltd., 1978, no 8A

Price: £4,500