Lot 1248
1248
A BRISTOL DELFT INSCRIBED AND DATED SHIP PLATE
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A BRISTOL DELFT INSCRIBED AND DATED SHIP PLATE

1764, PROBABLY RICHARD FRANK OF REDCLIFFE BACK

Details
A BRISTOL DELFT INSCRIBED AND DATED SHIP PLATE
1764, PROBABLY RICHARD FRANK OF REDCLIFFE BACK
Painted in blue with a three masted man-of-war with iron-red flags, the inscription DE JUNGE GOTTRIED EN JUNGE CHRISTIAN. above and the date 1764 below, the border with bianco-sopra-bianco scrolling foliage and cones
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1991, lot 113.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D99.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware (London, 1984), p. 142, no. 632 for a plate from the same set in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.

The Bristol Wharfage books (30 August 1764), record port dues of 16 shillings and 8 pence paid for the ship Young Gotfried registered in Danzig.

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