Lot Essay
For the earliest dated charger of this type (1661) with a vase in the decoration see L. Lipski and M. Archer, Dated English Delftware, London, 1984, p. 25, no. 37, see also F. Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 55, no. 3.14 for an example of similar date to the present lot.