Lot Essay
For charger of similar spirit painted with a landscape, dated 1657 and inscribed with the documenatry initials R/N/E for the potter Richard Newnham and his wife Elizabeth, see Michael Archer, Delftware, A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1997, p. 104, no. A.56. This dish was formerly in the collection of Mr. N. W. Podmore; Sotheby's, London, 22 December 1970, lot 210.