A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DISH

CIRCA 1630-1650, SOUTHWARK OR ROTHERHITHE

Details

A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DISH
CIRCA 1630-1650, SOUTHWARK OR ROTHERHITHE
Painted in the Wanli style with a central flower-head radiating leaves below a paneled border of flowers and precious objects, the underside covered with buff-colored slip and green-tinted lead glaze
12¾ in. (32.4 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Louis L. Lipski; Sotheby's, London, 17 November 1981, lot 253.
John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1991, lot 8.
With Jonathan Horne, London, 1983.

Literature

Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part III, London, March 1983, no. 54.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D173.

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Lot Essay

This dish is almost identical to examples from the Pickleherring site in Southwark, see Ivor Noël Hume, Early English Delftware from London and Virginia, cl. pl. opposite p. 84 and a discussion of these wares, pp. 46-47. Jonathan Horne notes that a large charger of this type was found in a rubbish pit at Kingsmill plantation in James City County, Virginia, having been taken there by the early settlers. For a strikingly similar dish, see Christie's; London, 16 November 1992, lot 2. Also see John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 130, no. 158.

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