BRISTOL DELFTWARE POLYCHROME ROYAL PORTRAIT CHARGER OF QUEEN ANNE CIRCA 1702-15

Painted with the seated monarch between the initials AR. 

Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Warren Baker, April 24, 1982, lot 22.

The charger has been broken (breakpoints at 4 and 7 o'clock) and glued back. There are some typical glaze abrasions/chipping along the rim edge. There is an approximate 5-inch haircrack running down inwards from the rim edge at 5 o'clock and stopping at the center.
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See p. 311 for an illustration of this lot.

Chargers, similar in shape and decoration, with the same distinctive sponged trees, shrubbery and grassy foreground, are found depicting either a seated or standing Queen Anne. Similar examples depicting the Queen seated are illustrated in Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, p. 64, no. 3.50; Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-glazed Earthenware in the British Isles, p. 80, cat. no. A.12 and in Ross E. Taggart, The Burnap Collection of English Pottery, p. 54, no. 141. Another similar charger was sold in these rooms, April 18, 1991, lot 63.