Lot Essay
Cf. an almost identically decorated plate from the same service in the Schreiber Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue (London, 1930), Vol. II, pl. 27, no. 222.
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CIRCA 1765
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A Staffordshire saltglazed stoneware polychrome plate
Circa 1765
En suite to the preceding, painted with a flautist and a sheep beside an urn on a pedestal flanked by trees and shrubs, with a ruin in the distance, beneath an entwined gilt monogram on a dark-green-ground within a puce cartouche, the well with green diaper pattern and flowerhead panels, the shaped border moulded with coloured trailing flowering branches
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam.
Circa 1765
En suite to the preceding, painted with a flautist and a sheep beside an urn on a pedestal flanked by trees and shrubs, with a ruin in the distance, beneath an entwined gilt monogram on a dark-green-ground within a puce cartouche, the well with green diaper pattern and flowerhead panels, the shaped border moulded with coloured trailing flowering branches
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm.) diam.
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Sale room notice
Please note there is a very minor chip to the relief work on the border of this lot.