CIRCA 1710, PROBABLY LONDON

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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE PLAQUE
CIRCA 1710, PROBABLY LONDON
Painted with a hunting party, the centre with a female figure riding side-saddle wearing a crown or plumed hat, with attendant courtiers, one bowing towards her with a hunting horn on a sash, before a felled stag and a hound, in a wooded glade and an impressive palace in the background, the top and one side with a raised tongue
17¼ (43.8 cm.) x 16¾ in. (42.7 cm.)

來源

With Jonathan Horne, London.

出版

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D419.
Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, London, 1993, Part XIII, no. 355.

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

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In the catalogue of the collection, Grigsby discussed the subject matter of the present plaque. If this does depict a crowned figure rather than a lady with a curious hat, then the possibility of this representing Queen Anne should be considered, the palatial building in the background might therefore represent Hampton Court or Kensington Palace. The flange remaining on the upper edge and the traces of flange on the other sides suggests this was intended to slide into a panelled room or item of furniture rather than being directly cemented into a wall; clearly it is part of a larger scheme. No other examples appear in the literature although Dutch tiles were used in the construction of the old Water Gallery at Hampton Court for Queen Mary II.

For a large blue and white tile with a European landscape, but painted in a different style, see Jonathan Horne, A Collection of Early English Pottery, London, 1985, Part V, no.111.