A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE PLATE, the centre painted with a bust portrait of a gentleman within a circular foliage cartouche, the border inscribed ADMIRAL KEPPEL FOR EVER, with stylised foliage sprays pendant from a brown rim (haircrack at 10 o'clock), circa 1780

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A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE PLATE, the centre painted with a bust portrait of a gentleman within a circular foliage cartouche, the border inscribed ADMIRAL KEPPEL FOR EVER, with stylised foliage sprays pendant from a brown rim (haircrack at 10 o'clock), circa 1780
23cm. diam.

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Cf. Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, p. 147, no. 10.22

Viscount Keppel became Commander-in-Chief of the British Grand Fleet in 1778 and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1782

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