Live Auction 1154Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection
AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME BOWL
Lot 30

AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME BOWL

CIRCA 1730, BLUE 4 TO BASE, BRISTOL OR BRISLINGTON

Closed3 November 2011

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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME BOWL
CIRCA 1730, BLUE 4 TO BASE, BRISTOL OR BRISLINGTON
Of deep form with pie-crust rim, painted in iron-red, green and blue with a bird among flowering shrubs, the border with stylised flowerheads and scrolls, the rim with radiating stiff leaves
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) diam.

Specialist note

See Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 80, no. 317 for a dated plate of 1722 with similar bird and flower painting. Fragments of pie-crust rims of this type have been found at Brislington and similar bowls have been excavated at Williamsburg, Virginia. See also John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1994, p. 239 and Anthony Ray, English Defltware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, London, 1968, pp. 183 & 184, nos. 106-108, pl. 55.