CIRCA 1745

Details

A pair of blue and white 'Burghley House' soup-plates
Circa 1745
Painted in underglaze-blue with a view of a large country house, a flag flying above the towered entrance and a terrace to one side, a large bird flies above and other oversized birds are in the trees in the foreground, baroque scrollwork border, rim chips and cracks
22.5 cm. diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

Though this imposing facade could represent a number of great 17th century houses, it has always been thought to be Burghley, both because of an English Delft prototype and because of the finely painted grisaille Chinese export porcelain punchbowl depicting the house and still in the collection there. See D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, p. 87.

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