A LONDON DELFT 'ADAM AND EVE' CHARGER

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A LONDON DELFT 'ADAM AND EVE' CHARGER
CIRCA 1660

Painted on a white ground in shades of blue, green, yellow and ochre with Adam and Eve flanking a tree in the Garden of Eden, the Serpent entwined in its branches, a fence and a tree at each side, within a blue dash and yellow line edge, the underside with a yellow slip and a blue glaze (cracked, chips to underside of rim)-- 16½in. (42cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Lipski Collection, no. 1178, Sotheby's Parke Bernet & Co., London, Part I, March 10, 1981, lot 26
John Philip Kassebaum, Sotheby's London, October 1, 1991, lot 42

Lot Essay

For similar examples, see Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 1967, no. 121 and Micael Archer, 'The Dating of Delftware Chargers', English Ceramics Circle Transactions, pl. 51e