1666, PROBABLY LONDON

Details

AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE-DASH ROYAL PORTRAIT CHARGER OF CHARLES II
1666, PROBABLY LONDON
Painted in colours with the King in his coronation robes, crowned and holding his sceptre, flanked by the initials CR, within a blue, ochre and yellow vaulted room with an oval medallion inscribed NT/1666, standing on a chequered blue and white floor within a yellow line and blue-dash rim, the underside with a brown-stained lead glaze and the blue number IV
12 7/8 in. (32.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Sotheby's London, 1 July 1986, lot 28.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D8.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Defltware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, 155, June 1999, p. 878, pl. V.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 28, no. 50.

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Lot Essay

Several coronation blue-dash chargers of this type survive ranging in date from 1661 to 1668, however the majority are in museum collections. The only other example in a private collection was that sold by Christie's, London, 29 November 1975, lot 164 and again from the Marjorie Wiggin Prescot Collection sale, Christie's, New York, 6 March 1981, lot 13 and finially in the Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 January 2006, lot 12.

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