AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE POLYCHROME CHARGER CIRCA 1680 |

London or Brislington, painted in the center with an unusual combination of green, ochre, orange and manganese with a Chinoiserie figure seated amongst shrubbery in a fenced garden.

Dr. and Mrs. Warren Baker Collection, sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 24, 1982, lot 12
Jonathan Horne, London, April, 1982
Vogel Collection no. 372

In good apperance and generally good appearance. Minor faint and short hairline cracks at rim.
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The color palette and outlining in manganese can be compared with a dish of a similar subject illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, London, 2000, Vol. 2, p. 137, D102. The same dark orange, yellow and turquoise green tones feature on a jug inscribed and dated '.R.S./1692', attributed to Brislington, published by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, London, 2013, pp. 173-174, C.25. Though the characteristic pale turquoise glaze of Brislington is absent in the present dish, an attribution to that site is plausible. Similar coloring was used on a posset pot and cover in the Longridge collection, illustrated by Grigsby, ibid, pp. 302-303, D276.