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 interior painted with a vignette of a figure with a staff in a rocky landscape with birds in flight over fields in the distance, the side pierced with interlocking circles painted with cell pattern and stylised garlands and pendants (minor glaze flaking to rim, footrim chip and glaze flaking to footrim)
63/8 in. (16 cm.) diam.

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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, op. cit., pl. 129B for the example in the British Museum (18.11-10.33) and the example sold in these Rooms, 3 June 1996, lot 1.

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