1661

Details

A LONDON DELFT INSCRIBED AND DATED BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL PLATE
1661
The centre inscribed Weilcom.mÿ./Freinds:./1661. with a flourish to the right and below
7½ in. (19 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1967, lot 85.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 1.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D77.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 43, no. 112B.

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

Only four examples with this inscription and date appear to have survived. It has been suggested that they were possibly made and decorated by Dutch potters active in England, as the nuances of spelling and calligraphy appear more Dutch than English and they are markedly different from other English examples of similar date.

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