AN ENGLISH DELFT LARGE DISH

CIRCA 1755, LONDON OR BRISTOL

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AN ENGLISH DELFT LARGE DISH
Circa 1755, London or Bristol
Painted in blue, green and iron-red with a flowering plant within a blue-dash surround, the border with half flowerheads, 13.3/8in. (34.3cm.) diam.; together with a Dutch Delft blue and white large Chinoiserie dish, blue 7 mark, painted with two vases of variant shape issuing flowers, the wide border with four terraces of similar flowers reserved within shaped oval panels against the diaper-pattern band outlining the well, 13.5/8in. (34.6cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles: A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, plate 114, no. B.152 for a similar example with a shaped line cartouche around the central flowers in place of the blue-dash surround found on the present example.