1659, SOUTHWARK, PROBABLY RICHARD NEWNHAM, PICKLEHERRING QUAY

Details

A LONDON DELFT DATED DOUBLE ROYAL PORTRAIT POLYCHROME 'LA FECONDITE' DISH
1659, SOUTHWARK, PROBABLY RICHARD NEWNHAM, PICKLEHERRING QUAY
Of conventional oval moulded form, the centre moulded with Venus lying naked and attended by five putti within a tasselled and coloumned interior on a blue and white chequered floor, the well with zig-zag and foliage-ornament, the flat rim with two circular depressions with half-length portraits of Charles I and Henrietta Maria to right and left flanked by moulded vases of flowers and oval depressions of flowering plants on mounds and in vases, one painted with a portrait of a gentleman and with a circular depression with the initials R/N.A above and another with the date 1659 below each flanked by moulded heads between blue band borders, the underside with a white tin glaze
18¼ in. (46.4 cm.) wide

Provenance

Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Christie's London, 29 May 1990, lot 4.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D2.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 41, no. 106.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

Lipski and Archer record sixteen examples dating between 1633 and 1697. For a detailed discussion concerning the Palissy source for these dishes see Frank Britton, 'Bernard Palissy and London Delftware', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, 1991, Vol. 14, pt. 2, pp. 169-176. See also Graham Slater, 'English Delftware Copies of La Fécondité Pattern Dishes Attributed to Palissy', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, 1999, Vol.17, pt. 1, pp. 47-64, pl. 29 where he discusses in detail the recorded examples, dividing them into ten groups.

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