A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH painted in iron-red, yellow, blue and green with an Oriental lady seated on a terrace before a window and beside a balustrade, with flowering trees, an insect in flight and a sun behind, within a line and scroll cartouche, the border with panels of stylised berried foliage alternating with hatched bands and scroll ornament, the reverse with dashes and circles (chips to rim), blue 4 mark, circa 1740 | Christie's

Lot 13

A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH painted in iron-red, yellow, blue and green with an Oriental lady seated on a terrace before a window and beside a balustrade, with flowering trees, an insect in flight and a sun behind, within a line and scroll cartouche, the border with panels of stylised berried foliage alternating with hatched bands and scroll ornament, the reverse with dashes and circles (chips to rim), blue 4 mark, circa 1740

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A BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH painted in iron-red, yellow, blue and green with an Oriental lady seated on a terrace before a window and beside a balustrade, with flowering trees, an insect in flight and a sun behind, within a line and scroll cartouche, the border with panels of stylised berried foliage alternating with hatched bands and scroll ornament, the reverse with dashes and circles (chips to rim), blue 4 mark, circa 1740
33.5cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. the example from the Benjamin and Cora Ginsburg Collection sold in our New York Rooms on 14 October 1983, lot 228

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