1754, BRISTOL

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AN ENGLISH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED ELECTIONEERING PLATE
1754, BRISTOL
Inscribed Fortescue. & Harris./For Ever./1754 within a wreath cartouche below a plain border
9 in. (22.8 cm.) diam.

来源

C.E. Roberts Chanter.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 May 1969, lot 6.
With Jonathan Horne, London.

出版

D60. The Longridge Catalogue

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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拍品专文

The present plate was made in support of John Fortescue and John Harris for the election to the Barnstaple constituency in Devon, 31 May 1754. The election was contended between three candidates, Harris received 217 votes, George R. Amgard received 206 and Fortescue received 154 votes.

See Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 129, no. 575 for a Fortescue and Harris plate of the same date.