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拍品专文
This rare form of flower-bowl, with distinctive flat top, two concentric rows of holes and fixed domed cover, appears to be of type designed to form the base section of a four-tiered flower stand. Single stems would have been inserted into the apertures to create a bold vertical display. Only one complete example is known, now at Colonial Williamsburg, illustrated by John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, Williamsburg, 1994, p.263, no. 627. The Williamsburg example bears the number 3 on the base of each section, suggesting that the numeral was used to identify and match the separate sections during production. Three similar recorded stands survive only in partial form. An example in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and one formerly in the Lipski collection consist of the bowl and two of the upper tiers (1), and an example in the Bristol Museum has the bowl and one other tier (2).
1. Museum no. C.1539 & A & B-1928,illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, London, 2013, p. 304, no. I.4.; and The Lipski Collection of English and Irish Delftware, Sotheby’s, London, Part I, 10 March 1981, lot 160.
2. Illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 103, no. 7.21.
1. Museum no. C.1539 & A & B-1928,illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, London, 2013, p. 304, no. I.4.; and The Lipski Collection of English and Irish Delftware, Sotheby’s, London, Part I, 10 March 1981, lot 160.
2. Illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 103, no. 7.21.