CIRCA 1745, PROBABLY LIMEKILN LANE

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AN BRISTOL DELFT POLYCHROME DISH
CIRCA 1745, PROBABLY LIMEKILN LANE
Boldly painted in blue, ochre, iron-red and green with two long-tailed birds in flight beside a tree with red and yellow leaves and before a building with a scale-pattern roof surmounted by a cupola, flanked by two similar buildings with shrubs and grasses with a fence and leafy mound in the foreground, the underside with X and dash-ornament
13 3/8 in. (34 cm.) diam.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D125.

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Lot Essay

An almost identical example, certainly by the same hand, was sold in these Rooms, 1 June 1987, lot 3.
See Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 297, no. 19.19 for another. Fragments with identical bird painting have been excavated on the Limekiln Lane site.

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