A LONDON DELFT POLYCHROME 'BOSCOBEL OAK' PLATE

CIRCA 1715-1725

Details

A LONDON DELFT POLYCHROME 'BOSCOBEL OAK' PLATE
CIRCA 1715-1725
Painted and sponged in blue, green and iron-red with Charles II hiding in an oak tree issuing three crowns and flanked by the inscription C/R within concentric bands
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Malcolm Mactaggart; Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1959, lot 89.
Thomas Burn, Rous Lench Court; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1986, lot 36.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D43.
Sampson & Horne, English Pottery & Related Works of Art, London, 2006, p. 38-39, fig. 2.
Sampson & Horne, English Pottery & Related Works of Art, London, 2008, p. 14, no. 08/10.
Aileen Dawson, The British Museum - English & Irish Delftware 1570-1840, London, 2010, pp. 64-65, no. 18.

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Lot Essay

For a detailed account of the historic flight of Charles II to France after evading Cromwell's troops by hiding in an oak tree in Boscobel Wood as depicted on the present plate, see Sampson & Horne, op. cit., pp. 38-39. Thereafter, the oak tree became a Royalist symbol.

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