A PAIR OF LIVERPOOL DELFT POLYCHROME WALL-POCKETS

CIRCA 1765

Details

A PAIR OF LIVERPOOL DELFT POLYCHROME WALL-POCKETS
CIRCA 1765
Each modeled as a fish, enriched in a palette of blue, ochre, green and iron-red, pierced for hanging
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Frances L. Dickson.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 February 1962, lot 64.
With Tilley & Co., London, 1962.
Jean and Kenneth Chorley; Christie's, New York, 25 January 1993, lot 46.

Literature

'English earthenware in the Chorley collection', The Magazine Antiques, LXXXVIII, February 1965, p. 184, fig. 7.
John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 262, footnote 2.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D379.

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Lot Essay

See John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 262, no. 625. Single pockets of the same form are known at Colonial Williamsburg and the Liverpool Museum. Together with the present pair, they form a group of only four recorded examples, all apparently from the same mold, all with the fish's backbone curving in the same direction. The present pockets have traditionally been described as a pair, begging the question of whether a model curving in the opposite direction as a mirror image was ever made.

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