CIRCA 1755-1760, HENRY DELAMAIN'S FACTORY, DUBLIN

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AN IRISH DELFT POLYCHROME CANDLESTICK
CIRCA 1755-1760, HENRY DELAMAIN'S FACTORY, DUBLIN
With a wrythen-moulded central column supporting a cylindrical nozzle on a domed circular foot, painted with scattered trailing flowers in blue, yellow, manganese and green
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D383.
Peter Francis, Irish Delftware, An Illustrated History (London, 2000), pp. 116 & 117, col. pl. 34.

Exhibited

London, Jonathan Horne, Irish Delftware Exhibtion, 2000.

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Lot Essay

Only three examples, this and a pair, are illustrated by Francis, ibid., fig. 136, are known. The author suggests they may have been taken from a mould for a Staffordshire white glass example that they closely resemble. This unusual painting style and palette appears on an inscribed and dated bowl of 1756 illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, p. 217, no. 1752, pl. 120A.

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