CIRCA 1760, ENGLISH OR POSSIBLY IRISH

Details

A DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL OCTAGONAL PLATE
CIRCA 1760, ENGLISH OR POSSIBLY IRISH
Painted with a coat-of-arms within a brown line rim, minor chipping and flaking to rim
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) wide

Literature

Peter Francis, Irish Delftware, an Illustrated History, London, 2000, fig. 114, pp.103-4.

Exhibited

Irish Delftware, an Exhibition of 18th Century Irish Delftware at Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare, 21 October - 29 December 1971, no. 10, p.40.
Jonathan Horne, Irish Delftware Exhibition, 2000.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

At the time of the Castletown Exhibition, the arms were unidentified, the sinister impalement resembling the arms of O'Brien, leading to a tentative attribution to the Limerick works of John Stritch. Francis (Ibid.) re-interprets the arms as Ludlow of Shropshire impailing Kynaston.

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