DELFTWARE Beverage Wares 
 
Fuddling Cups 
 
 
D292. FUDDLING CUP 
 
 
London, probably Southwark 
 
1630-1650 
 
 
H.: 3 1/4" (8.3 cm); 
 
Diam.: 4 5/8" (11.7 cm) 
 
 
BODY CLAY: Medium-grained buff. 
 
TIN GLAZE: White with blue and 
 
brown speckling. Overall, excluding 
 
majority of bottoms. 
 
SHAPE: Thrown. Rolled and twisted 
 
handles. Joined bellies of vessels 
 
pierced to form single, larger vessel. 
 
Rough textured, slightly concave 
 
bottoms. 
 
DECORATION: Painted. Each cup 
 
bears similar bird on branch under 
curvilinear motifs. Three trefoil elements 
 
centered over conjoined region. Handles 
 
bear scrolls, trefoil motifs, and outlines. 
Borders composed of horizontal lines. 
 
 
FD 
IDirds very like the type on this cup are known on dated English delftware

 
from the 1630s and occur in slightly different form on examples from a few

years earlier (for 1628 bottles, see nos. D218, D219).' Scrolled motifs resembling

those near the rims of this cup occur as part of floral motifs on an otherwise

white, circa 1640 fuddling cup and are not uncommon on Dutch delftware.,

Another fuddling cup, though it bears neither birds nor arabesques, is virtu-

ally identical to the Longridge example in shape and the painting of its
(hori- 
zontal-line) borders and its line, scroll, and trefoil handle ornament.,

 
 
Actual size 
 
 
        1. Lipski and Archer, Dated Delftware, 
        nos. 886-888; for different form, nos. 706 707, 
        1250 1253, 1511. 
        2. Archer, V&A, no. D.3. 
        3. Home, Collection, pt. 19, no. 553 (also Sothe- 
        by's {NYI, Koger sale, October 24, 1998, lot 1001). 
 
 
318 The Longridge Collection