STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
STYLE: Furniture, Silver, Ceramics
Lot Closed
October 21, 03:28 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A BRISTOL DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE ELECTIONEERING PLATE, CIRCA 1734-35
painted at the center with a figure of Justice holding a sword and scales standing on an allegorical figure holding a pamphlet inscribed The Petition, below an archway bearing the inscription LIBERTA·POPULI below drapery and the initials T.C, the lambrequin border painted with panels of flowerheads, the underside with concentric blue circles
diameter 8¾ in.
22.3 cm
Ginsberg & Levy, New York, bearing label
The 'T C' initials refer to Thomas Coster, a Tory candidate who stood against Sir Abraham Elton, and John Scrope, another Whig and Secretary to the Treasury, in the 1734 City and County of Bristol election. A plate of this design was sold at Sotheby's London, July 21, 1981, lot 140 and subsequently entered the Longridge Collection, illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, London, 2000, Vol. 2, D.59, sold at Christie's London, November 3, 2011, lot 336.