Lot 262
  • 262

A collection of fourteen Dutch Delft polychrome ‘Pauwenborden’ or 'peacock' dishes, 18th century

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pottery
eleven of various sizes painted with the same pattern of a central large flower vase reserved within a border of half-flowerheads and leaves, various marks including LPK, L P Kam marks in blue and iron-red for De Porceleyne Lampetkan (The Porcelain Ewer) factory and BP mark in blue, perhaps for De Vergulde Blompot (The Gilded Flowerpot) factory, 13cm., 9 in. to 36.5cm., 14 3/8 in. diam.and three chargers with a variation of the pattern in the 'cashmire' palette, 35.3cm., 13 7/8 in. diam.

Condition

One of the three chargers in a variation of the pattern is cracked, otherwise the others are in generally good condition with only typical varying degrees of glaze chips at rims.
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