1758, PROBABLY LONDON

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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED PLATE
1758, PROBABLY LONDON
With fluted border and lobed rim, painted with two sawyers at work on a platform and a labourer carring a plank of wood, within a bianco-sopra-bianco border, the reverse inscribed and dated Charles, Cordy/of norwich/1758 (restoration to rim)
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

J.A. Hutton, Hertfordshire.
Purchased June 1967, Bury St. Edmunds, DLL, according to applied paper lable.
Anonymous; Sotheby's, London, 27 February 1996, lot 112.

Literature

Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p.135, no. 600.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D86.

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Lot Essay

Charles Cordy, a swayer of Norwich is mentioned in 'Land Tax MS. Annual Returns of Assessors and Collectors', and other records at the Norfolk and Norwich Record Office noting payment for Window Tax and Land Tax between 1755-1783. See Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, ibid., pp. 134-135.

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