CIRCA 1755, HENRY DELAMAIN'S FACTORY

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A Dublin delft blue and white pierced circular basket
Circa 1755, Henry Delamain's factory
The centre with a landscape vignette of trees and rockwork with birds in flight over fields in the distance beneath a border of pierced interlocking circles, the footrim pierced for suspension (slight chips and glaze flakes to rim, one large footrim chip and other slight chips)
6 3/8in. (16.4cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg (1994), p. 190, figs. 371-2 and Irish Delftware, 'An Exhibition of the 18th Century Irish Delftware ' at Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare (1971), pls. 25-27. See also Garner and Archer, Catalogue, pl. 129B for the example in the British Museum (18.11-10.33).

A similar basket was sold in these Rooms, 29 May 1990, lot 29.

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