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A Dublin delft blue and white three-tiered shell centrepiece
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A Dublin delft blue and white three-tiered shell centrepiece

CIRCA 1760, EITHER MARY DELAMAIN OR WILLIAM DELAMAIN & SAMUEL WILKINSON

Details
A Dublin delft blue and white three-tiered shell centrepiece
Circa 1760, either Mary Delamain or William Delamain & Samuel Wilkinson
The three tiers of shallow scallop-shells painted with flowers and supported by narrow arches applied with stud ornament about a central collumn moulded with stylised shells, surmounted by a fluted bowl similarly painted with flowers, the lowest tier applied with three birds perched on whelks between the shells, on a circular spreading base applied and moulded with blue shells and pierced with four arches surrounded by moss and seaweed (one large and one medium sized scallop-shell restored, the top bowl a restored replacement, one bird a restored replacement, some minor chipping to extremities)
16¼ in. (41 cm.) high
Provenance
Louis L. Lipski, sale Sotheby's, 10th March 1981, lot 139.
Literature
Peter Francis, Irish Delftware (2000), p.121, fig.146.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

See also Michael Archer, op. cit. (London, 1997), p.332, G.13, pl.212 for a similarly modelled sweetmeat-stand, decorated in colours, in the collection of The Victoria & Albert Museum; and see Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, Part I (London, 1981), no. 14, for a similar, smaller blue and white version.

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