A DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE SERVING-DISH AND A SOUP-PLATE

MID-18TH CENTURY, ENGLISH OR IRISH

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A DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE SERVING-DISH AND A SOUP-PLATE
MID-18TH CENTURY, ENGLISH OR IRISH
Each painted with a figure of a traveller within wooded landscape vignette below a cross within a circular medallion above 1538, both restored
The serving-dish - 20 in. (51 cm.) wide (2)

Literature

Peter Francis, Irish Delftware an Illustrated History, London, 2000, p. 104, fig. 115 (for the soup-plate).

Exhibited

Both exhibited at Irish Delftware, an Exhibition of 18th Century Irish Delftware at Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, 21 October - 29 December 1971, no. 50, p. 53 (for the serving-dish) and no. 88 (for the soup-plate).

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Lot Essay

Part of a larger service, these pieces are decorated with the Order of St. Cuthbert and the date 1538 which presumably commemorates the destruction of St. Cuthbert's tomb during the dissolution of the monastereies. This service has been tentatively attributed to John Chambers's factory, Dublin.

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