A LONDON DELFT BLUE-DASH ROYAL PORTRAIT CHARGER with a full-length portrait of King William III in his coronation robes, painted predominantly in blue but outlined in manganese, holding an orb and sceptre and flanked by the initials WR, with birds in flight in a cloudy sky above, flanked by two three-tiered green trees on a striped green and ochre mound, within a blue-dash rim (crack at 8 o'clock towards the centre, slight rim chips), circa 1690 35cm. diam.

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A LONDON DELFT BLUE-DASH ROYAL PORTRAIT CHARGER with a full-length portrait of King William III in his coronation robes, painted predominantly in blue but outlined in manganese, holding an orb and sceptre and flanked by the initials WR, with birds in flight in a cloudy sky above, flanked by two three-tiered green trees on a striped green and ochre mound, within a blue-dash rim (crack at 8 o'clock towards the centre, slight rim chips), circa 1690 35cm. diam.
Provenance
Admiral Sir Lionel Preston
The Hon. Mrs. P.A. Robinson, sale Sotheby's, 15 May 1979, lot 59

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