CIRCA 1680-1685, LONDON OR PERHAPS BRISLINGTON

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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE-DASH EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT CHARGER
CIRCA 1680-1685, LONDON OR PERHAPS BRISLINGTON
Painted in blue, ochre and turquoise with a mounted equestrian soldier, perhaps General Monck, Ist Duke of Albemarle, his horse with ochre reins, girdle and sash, prancing between stylised trees on a striped ochre mound with foliage within an ochre line and blue-dash border, the underside with straw slip and lead glaze
13½ in. (34.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mrs. C. Penn; Sotheby's, London, 15 March 1971, lot 20.
Mrs. E. Moore Collection of Blue Dash Chargers; Sotheby's, London, 17 April 1973, lot 200.
With Jonathan Horne, London.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D17.
Jonathan Horne, A Collection of English Pottery, London, 1988, Part VIII, no. 195.
Hugo Morley-Fletcher and Roger McIlory, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, Oxford, 1984, p. 242, no. 7.

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Lot Essay

Suggestions for the identity of the sitter, other than General Monck, include Charles II, James II or the Duke of Malborough. See Anthony Ray, English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, London, 1968, pl. 3, fig. 10.

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