AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED PIERCED BASKET

DATED 1698, LONDON OR BRISTOL

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AN ENGLISH DELFT DATED PIERCED BASKET
DATED 1698, LONDON OR BRISTOL
The interior painted with Jacob wrestling with the angel (Genesis 33:24), the underside inscribed and dated S/T*M/1698 enclosing a heart flanked by dotted circles, the sides reticulated with a tulip and open flower-head design, the rim set with paired bracket and rope-twist handles, raised on three toupie feet
10¼ in. (26 cm.) wide, overall

Provenance

With Mark and Marjorie Allen, New Hampshire.

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Lot Essay

See John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, p. 277, no. 683 for a tile painted with this subject and a mention that this subject only appears on English tiles unlike the majority of Biblical tiles which are based on Dutch examples. For a basket painted with this subject and date 1698 see Anthony Ray, English Delftware Tiles, London, 1973 p. 118, no. 32.; and Jonathan Horne, English Tinglazed Tiles, London, 1989, p. 80, fig. XVI

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