1673

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A LONDON DELFT DATED ARMORIAL BLUE AND WHITE CHARGER
1673
Of exceptionally large size, the central arms surrounded by scrolling foliage mantling with the initials W/W.M and the date 1673 flanking the crest and with MAY THE: 21^T^H below, the well with scroll-ornament and the broad rim with alternating panels of flowers and foliage and Oriental figures among rockwork and grasses, divided by waisted panels of scale and diaper-ornament, the underside with a white tin glaze
22 3/8 in. (57 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 29. John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1991, lot 3.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D84.
Louis L. Lipski and M. Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 49, no. 134.
Michael Archer, 'An English Delftware Charger of General Monk', Victorian and Albert Museum Bulletin, Vol. IX, no. 1, January 1968, pp. 1-8, fig. 2.

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Lot Essay

Although once considered the arms of the Company of Makers of Playing Cards, it is now considered not to be the case. Research by the late Frank Britton suggests that the initials are for William Wythe and Mary Judge who were married at All-Hallows-on-the-Wall in the City of London 1673, yet there is no apparent connection between their names and the arms here represented.

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