A LONDON DELFT PORTRAIT PLATE

CIRCA 1780

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A LONDON DELFT PORTRAIT PLATE
CIRCA 1780
Painted in blue with a bust-length portrait of Admiral Keppel, within a circular surround issuing flowers, inscribed in manganese ADMIRAL KEPPEL FOR EVER within a border of trailing flowers and a brick-red rim
8 7/8 in. (22.7 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 December 1994, lot 2.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D58.

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Lot Essay

For a similar example, see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1994, p. 147, no. 10.22. Also see fig. 12 for a strikingly similar engraving of Admiral Keppel published 1779 and now found in the British Museum (53.1.12.1873).

Viscount Keppel became Commander-in-Chief of the British Grand Fleet in 1778 and First Lord of the Admiralty in 1782.

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