AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE POLYCHROME BLUE-DASH TULIP CHARGER CIRCA 1670-80
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:44 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE POLYCHROME BLUE-DASH TULIP CHARGER
CIRCA 1670-80
probably London, boldly painted with four tulip flowers and sprays of carnation, the center with a small mask-medallion, within a yellow line and blue dash border.
Diameter 12⅞ in.; 32.5 cm
Bearing a paper label inscribed and dated 'This Dish is/ 265 years/ old in/ 1882.'
Mrs Franklin E. Campbell, West Medford, MA.
R. Jorgensen Antiques, Wells, ME, August 4, 1989.
A dated marriage charger with a similar composition of flowers and a central boss, inscribed with the initials C over EH and date 1663, from the Moor Wood Collection was sold at Sotheby’s London, May 15, 1979, lot 97, illustrated in Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, Tin-glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, London, 1984, p. 31, no. 66. The dish is noteworthy for the painted head of a man wearing a tall hat on the reverse. The feature of a face at the center of the dish is unusual and can be compared to recorded ‘sun-face’ dishes. A comparable dish painted with a vase of flowers, the central flower embellished with a similar ‘human face’, was sold at Sotheby’s London, March 25, 1980, lot 103.