Sale 2515
New York
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24 January 2011
Price realised
USD 37,500
Estimate
AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME PORTRAIT BOWL CIRCA 1704-1711, PROBABLY BRISTOL Painted in blue, green iron-red and yellow with a half-length portrait of Duke Marlborough, flanked by the inscription D/M below drapery, within patterned bands and a frilled rim 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Louis L. Lipski; Sotheby's, London, 10 March 1981, lot 86. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 1993, lot 46.
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Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D188.
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