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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CANADIAN COLLECTION
AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE BRICK
CIRCA 1740, LONDON OR LIVERPOOL
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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE BRICK
CIRCA 1740, LONDON OR LIVERPOOL
Rectangular and raised on 'runners', the surface washed in blue and pierced with twenty-one apertures, the central hole larger, the front painted with a woman standing beside a tree balancing a basket on her head, trees and a house at the left, the reverse with a two-story house between trees on a hilly knoll, the short ends with a duck swimming, a V-formation of other birds above
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) long
CIRCA 1740, LONDON OR LIVERPOOL
Rectangular and raised on 'runners', the surface washed in blue and pierced with twenty-one apertures, the central hole larger, the front painted with a woman standing beside a tree balancing a basket on her head, trees and a house at the left, the reverse with a two-story house between trees on a hilly knoll, the short ends with a duck swimming, a V-formation of other birds above
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) long
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See Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 104, no. 7.28 for another of similar form with the top surface washed in blue and pierced in a similar pattern, also painted with rural landscapes.
See also Michael Archer and Brian Morgan, Fair as China Dishes - English Delftware from the Collection of Mrs. Marion Morgan and Brian Morgan, exhibition catalogue, 1977, no. 64 for an interesting discussion and plausible explanation as to the purpose bricks such as the present example may have served in 18th century households.
See also Michael Archer and Brian Morgan, Fair as China Dishes - English Delftware from the Collection of Mrs. Marion Morgan and Brian Morgan, exhibition catalogue, 1977, no. 64 for an interesting discussion and plausible explanation as to the purpose bricks such as the present example may have served in 18th century households.