Lot 2
2
A BRISLINGTON DELFT POLYCHROME FLUTED CIRCULAR BOWL painted in blue, manganese and yellow, the centre with an Oriental seated on rockwork, the border with a figure seated before a fence and another flanked by rockwork issuant with schematic trees beneath a blue line rim (repair, minor chips and glaze flaking to rim), circa 1685

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A BRISLINGTON DELFT POLYCHROME FLUTED CIRCULAR BOWL painted in blue, manganese and yellow, the centre with an Oriental seated on rockwork, the border with a figure seated before a fence and another flanked by rockwork issuant with schematic trees beneath a blue line rim (repair, minor chips and glaze flaking to rim), circa 1685
30cm. diam.

Lot Essay

The painting on the present bowl may be compared with the border decoration, in similar colours, on the Brislington initialled Royal Portrait plate from the Lipski Collection, sale Sotheby's, 10 March 1981, lot 25, and for comparable examples of late 17th century English Delftware using this unusual 'hooked leaf' ornament see Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, nos. 160 and 183

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