CIRCA 1755, HENRY DELAMAIN, THE WORLD'S END POTTERY, DUBLIN

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AN IRISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE PIERCED CIRCULAR BASKET
CIRCA 1755, HENRY DELAMAIN, THE WORLD'S END POTTERY, DUBLIN
The deep circular bowl pierced to the border with interlaced circles, painted to the centre with an Italianate landscape of a ruined arch beside trees with mountains in the distance within a roundel, the pierced border with dot and dash ornament above pendants, a swagged double line, the exterior with dot ornament (two faint cracks to the top edge of the rim at about 5 and 7 o'clock with some associated glaze flaking)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

Cf. Peter Francis, Irish Delftware, An Illustrated History (London, 2000), pp. 112-4 for a classification of Dublin baskets, and Irish Delftware, 'An Exhibition of the 18th Century Irish Defltware at Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare (1971), pls. 25-27. See also John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, 1994), p. 190, nos. 371-2 and Garner and Archer, English Delftware (Glasgow, 1972), pl. 129B for related examples with similar ornament and the examples sold in these Rooms 3rd June 1996, lot 1 and 11th December 2000 lot 9.

The present example would appear to be unusual in that the beautifully executed landscape is framed within a single-line roundel, and the basket is formed with a border of 25 'touching' circles, see Peter Francis, ibid., p. 113.

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