A LONDON DELFT BLUE-DASH ROYAL PORTRAIT CHARGER painted with a king in his coronation robes with manganese hair, his ermine-lined cloak enriched in ochre, holding an orb and sceptre and flanked by two three-tiered green trees, on a striped green and ochre ground within a yellow line and blue-dash rim (rim restorations at 3 and 9 o'clock and crack at 8 o'clock), circa 1690 35cm. diam.
Details
A LONDON DELFT BLUE-DASH ROYAL PORTRAIT CHARGER painted with a king in his coronation robes with manganese hair, his ermine-lined cloak enriched in ochre, holding an orb and sceptre and flanked by two three-tiered green trees, on a striped green and ochre ground within a yellow line and blue-dash rim (rim restorations at 3 and 9 o'clock and crack at 8 o'clock), circa 1690 35cm. diam.
Provenance
Louis L. Lipski, sale Sotheby's, 10 March 1981, lot 32
Lot Essay
Cf. Burnap Collection, Catalogue, no. 128 for an example with the initials WR