Lot 340
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A BRISTOL DELFT BLUE AND WHITE BLUE-DASH PORTRAIT CHARGER painted with a man in a knee-length coat with a sash and holding a baton, flanked by the initials DO and by blue-sponged trees, on a blue-sponged mound within a double blue line and blue- dash rim (extensively damaged and repaired), circa 1714

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A BRISTOL DELFT BLUE AND WHITE BLUE-DASH PORTRAIT CHARGER painted with a man in a knee-length coat with a sash and holding a baton, flanked by the initials DO and by blue-sponged trees, on a blue-sponged mound within a double blue line and blue- dash rim (extensively damaged and repaired), circa 1714
31cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The portrait probably represents James Butler, 2nd. Duke of Ormonde, who succeeded Marlborough as Captain-General 1711 to 1714

Cf. Frank Britton, op. cit., no. 3.58

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