A Pair of English Delftware Blue and White Wall Pockets, Mid-18th Century

Property of the Shelter Island Historical Society, sold to benefit the Museum Collections Program
A Pair of English Delftware Blue and White Wall Pockets
Mid-18th Century

of molded form in Rococo taste with a female mask head flanked by flowers and scrollwork above a Satyr mask, pierced for hanging
Length 8 1/8 in.

Condition Report:
Each with glaze chips to extremities as visible in the illustrations, one with flat chip to top edge of rim measuring 1.1 x 0.8 cm, as visible in the illustration.
The other with a large section of the flat reverse edge repaired. Formed of a D-shaped section, secured by two partially visible metal pins at seam. This repair is failing and is in need of attention.