SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BRISTOL

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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME ROYAL PORTRAIT CHARGER
SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BRISTOL
Painted in blue, green, yellow and iron-red with the King, probably George II, crowned and wearing his coronation robes, holding an orb and sceptre, standing between two sponged trees, within concentric circles and a blue-dash border, the reverse with a tin-glaze (cracked and restored between 8-9 o'clock)
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) diam.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D49.

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Lot Essay

See Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 66, no. 3.57 for a similar example with the initials GR. See also John C. Austin, English Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994, p. 139, no. 185 for a similar dish from the F.H. Garner collection. For a related dish form the Longridge collection see Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D50.

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