Live Auction 2515Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection
A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DISH
Lot 36

A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DISH

CIRCA 1720-1740, LAMBETH

Closed24 January 2011

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A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DISH
CIRCA 1720-1740, LAMBETH
Painted with a cat standing on its hind legs playing a fiddle before four dancing mice, flanked by sponged trees, within a blue concentric band and dash border
13 5/8 in. (35.2 cm.) diameter

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 April 1997, lot 158.

Specialist note

For a dish painted with the same subject but without the blue dash border, see an anonymous sale; Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 28 February 2006, lot 191. The scene may allude to the nursery rhyme mentioning a 'cat and fiddle' or possibly to the story of the 'Pied Piper of Hamelin'. The name is also often associated with publik houses and taverns.