AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME ROYAL COMMEMORATIVE PLATE

CIRCA 1715-25, LONDON OR BRISTOL

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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME ROYAL COMMEMORATIVE PLATE
CIRCA 1715-25, LONDON OR BRISTOL
The centre with a green and iron-red crown above the initials G.R within a concentric blue-line band, within radiating iron-red rays forming a star, the points divided by groups of four green dots, with a blue-line border to the rim (hairline cracks to rim and well, small repaired hole, restored chip and flaking to rim)
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

See John Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1994, p. 139, no. 187, for a similar example where the author mentions that the star may represent the star in the Order of the Garter. Another example was sold in these Rooms on 8 November 1999, lot 13.

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