CIRCA 1750, PROBABLY LAMBETH HIGH STREET

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A LAMBETH DELFT POLYCHROME BLUE-GROUND PLATE
CIRCA 1750, PROBABLY LAMBETH HIGH STREET
The blue-ground painted with scattered playing cards in iron-red and yellow, the underside inscribed Bowcock in manganese
8 7/8 in. (22.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little; Sotheby's, New York, 21 October 1994, lot 499.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D179.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 239, no. 15.9, for an example with a border of sgraffito flowers and foliage and another from the Moor Wood Collection sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 May 1979, lot 50.

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