A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH
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A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH

CIRCA 1740, POSSIBLY LIMEKILN LANE OR TEMPLE BACK

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A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH
CIRCA 1740, POSSIBLY LIMEKILN LANE OR TEMPLE BACK
Vibrantly painted in blue, green, yellow and iron-red with an Oriental and a long-tailed bird between three spits of rockwork planted with sparse trees and a willow
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Louis L. Lipski Collection, Sotheby's, London, 10 March 1981, lot 112.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D122.
Michael Archer, English Delftware/Engels Delfts Aardwerk, Amsterdam, 1973, no. 103.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, English Delftware/Engels Delfts Aardwerk, An Exhibition organised by The British Council, 23 March - 8 July, 1973.
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

For other dishes with this distinctive palette and style of painting see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 180, nos. 11.42-11.45.

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