TWO ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE-FORM FLOWER BRICKS, CIRCA 1750
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January 25, 03:59 AM GMT
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TWO ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE SQUARE-FORM FLOWER BRICKS, CIRCA 1750
each of slightly tapering form pierced with three large holes, and either seven or six smaller holes, each painted in Chinoiserie style with panels, one with a figure fishing on a river bank, the other with a small pagoda building on an island
heights 3 ⅝ in.; 3 ¾ in.
9 cm; 9.5 cm
Joseph V. Vizcarra Collection, no. 90, bearing label (one)
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 12-14 April 1984, lot 431
Howard Hodgkin Collection, bearing label (the other)
A flower holder of this form painted with a slight variation of the pattern is in the Glaisher Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated in Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, London, 2013, p. 304, I.4