Lot Essay
A Stephen Fortune was christened on 29 January 1603 at Brinkley, Cambridge. This is the earliest dated fecundity dish recorded.
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1633, SOUTHWARK, MONTAGUE CLOSE OR PICKLEHERRING QUAY
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A LONDON DELFT NAMED AND DATED POLYCHROME LA FECONDITE DISH
1633, SOUTHWARK, MONTAGUE CLOSE OR PICKLEHERRING QUAY
Of conventional oval moulded form, the centre with Venus lying naked and attended by five putti within a tasselled and columned interior on a blue and white tiled floor, enriched in blue, yellow, ochre and green, the well inscribed :STEPHEN:FORTVNE:&:ELIZABETH between scrolls, dated 1633, the flat rim moulded with four circular and four oval depressions painted with quatrefoil flowerheads and leaves in the Kraak style, divided by moulded sprays of fruit and leaves and draped masks, the reverse with tin-glaze and traces of manganese (two small areas of restoration to rim)
19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm.) wide
1633, SOUTHWARK, MONTAGUE CLOSE OR PICKLEHERRING QUAY
Of conventional oval moulded form, the centre with Venus lying naked and attended by five putti within a tasselled and columned interior on a blue and white tiled floor, enriched in blue, yellow, ochre and green, the well inscribed :STEPHEN:FORTVNE:&:ELIZABETH between scrolls, dated 1633, the flat rim moulded with four circular and four oval depressions painted with quatrefoil flowerheads and leaves in the Kraak style, divided by moulded sprays of fruit and leaves and draped masks, the reverse with tin-glaze and traces of manganese (two small areas of restoration to rim)
19 3/8 in. (49.2 cm.) wide
Provenance
Lord Revelstoke; Puttick & Simpson, 17 May 1935, lot 72.
Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little; Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 October 1994, lot 484.
Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little; Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 October 1994, lot 484.
Literature
Louis Gautier, 'Lambeth Delft Pottery', Apollo, July 1935, p. 11, fig. 111.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p.37, no.90.
Nina Fletcher Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts, Hanover, N.H., 1998, p. 78, fig. 97.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, June 1999, 155, no. 6, pp. 878-879, pl. 4.
Graham Slater, 'English Delftware Copies of La Fécondité Dishes Attributed to Palissy', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. 17, pt.1, 1999, pp. 47-64 pl.6.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D1.
Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p.37, no.90.
Nina Fletcher Little, Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts, Hanover, N.H., 1998, p. 78, fig. 97.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, June 1999, 155, no. 6, pp. 878-879, pl. 4.
Graham Slater, 'English Delftware Copies of La Fécondité Dishes Attributed to Palissy', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol. 17, pt.1, 1999, pp. 47-64 pl.6.
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D1.
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