A LONDON DELFT BLUE-DASH ROYAL EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT CHARGER painted with King William III in ermine-edged blue robes and holding a sceptre, riding a prancing stallion, with the initials W R above and flanked by schematic trees, on a striped green and ochre ground and within a blue-dash rim (restorations to rim at 3 o'clock and between 8 and 9 o'clock, crack at 11 o'clock, glaze flaking to rim), circa 1690
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A LONDON DELFT BLUE-DASH ROYAL EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT CHARGER painted with King William III in ermine-edged blue robes and holding a sceptre, riding a prancing stallion, with the initials W R above and flanked by schematic trees, on a striped green and ochre ground and within a blue-dash rim (restorations to rim at 3 o'clock and between 8 and 9 o'clock, crack at 11 o'clock, glaze flaking to rim), circa 1690
35.5cm. diam.
Lot Essay
Cf. the example from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Billington sold in these Rooms on 27 February 1989, lot 142