Lot 687
  • 687

AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL PLATE CIRCA 1680-1700 |

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • width 7 7/8 in.
  • 20 cm
London, Bristol or Brislington, press-molded and painted in with a Chinoiserie figure seated amidst shrubbery in a garden, the rim with similar decoration.

Provenance

Louis L. Lipski Collection, London, October, 1977
Vogel Collection no. 278

Condition

There are typical glaze flake chips to the corners of the plate. At 3 o'clock on the reverse side there is a chip.
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Catalogue Note

Dated plates of this form and pattern are recorded as early as 1670. See the set of three marriage plates dated 1670 with initials D over W.D, published by Louis L. Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware, Tin-glazed Earthenware 1600-1800, London, 1984, pp. 50-51, nos. 143-143B.