A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH painted in iron-red, yellow, blue and green with a church with scale-pattern roof surmounted by a cupola and with two birds in flight beneath a tall leafy tree within a blue line cartouche, the reverse with dash and cross ornament (restored rim chip at 8 o'clock, glaze flaking to rim), circa 1740, probably Limekiln Lane
Details
A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH painted in iron-red, yellow, blue and green with a church with scale-pattern roof surmounted by a cupola and with two birds in flight beneath a tall leafy tree within a blue line cartouche, the reverse with dash and cross ornament (restored rim chip at 8 o'clock, glaze flaking to rim), circa 1740, probably Limekiln Lane
34cm. diam.
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's, 1 June 1987, lot 3
Lot Essay
Cf. Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, no. 19.19