CIRCA 1640, SOUTHWARK OR ROTHERHITHE

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A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE MOULDED DISH
CIRCA 1640, SOUTHWARK OR ROTHERHITHE
The centre with a stylised flowerhead with radiating geometric foliage and loop-ornament within circular concentric bands, the border moulded with flowerheads and flanked by stylised scrolls within a blue band and a serrated rim, the underside with a pale-brown slip and lead glaze
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) diam.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D171.

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Lot Essay

See Michael Archer and Brian Morgan, Fair as China Dishes, Washington, D.C., 1977, p. 22, no.6 for a closely similar example. A dated dish of 1636 with raised boss decoration and serrated rim with typical flower painting associated with Christian Willhelm's factory is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, p. 169, no. 1298, pl. 101C.

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