Live Auction 2388The Collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III
Lot 367

AN ENGLISH DELFT CHARGER OF APPLE PICKERS

CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY LONDON

Closed26 January 2010

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AN ENGLISH DELFT CHARGER OF APPLE PICKERS
CIRCA 1720, PROBABLY LONDON
Painted with a gentleman on a ladder handing fruit to his companion, she gathering them in her skirt, flanked by a figure gathering fruit and a hound between sponged trees
14 in. (35.5 cm.) diameter

With Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Blum, Lisbon, Connecticut.

Specialist note

See John Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 147, no. 207 for a similarly composed dish attributed to London or Holland and a note confirming that the archaeological archive at Colonial Williamsburg retains fragments of similar dishes excavated at Chiswell-Bucktrout House (2HB.111) and at Shields Tavern (9LA.0050).