AN EARLY BLUE AND WHITE MYTHOLOGICAL DISH

CIRCA 1700

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AN EARLY BLUE AND WHITE MYTHOLOGICAL DISH
Circa 1700
Painted in inky tones of cobalt blue with Bacchus standing on a tiled floor and raising a glass, a grapevine wreath in his hair and a girdle of grapevine around his hips, on the well a formal arrangement of scrolling grapevine, the rim lightly molded with gadroon pattern after European silver
14 5/8in. (37.1cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A very similar dish in the Mottahedeh collection is illustrated by Howard & Ayers, op. cit., p. 76 where the authors note that this design seems to be based on a Delft prototype. The other recorded early European subjects also seem to be Dutch market, and often based on silver shapes as well as on Delft patterns, like this dish

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