Americana, Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export and Prints
Americana, Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Chinese Export and Prints
A London Delftware Polychrome Tulip Charger, Circa 1660
Lot Closed
January 24, 06:16 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A London Delftware Polychrome Tulip Charger
Circa 1660
boldly painted with three tulips and leafy sprays of chrysanthemum within a yellow line and blue dash border, the underside painted with the letter L or T.
diameter 13 7/8 in.
35.3 cm
G. F. Glenny Collection, Cambridge
Cora Ginsburg, New York, March, 1972
Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III (collection no. 151), Sotheby's New York, January 19, 2019, lot 691
Cora Ginsburg, New York, March, 1972
Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III (collection no. 151), Sotheby's New York, January 19, 2019, lot 691
Anthony Ray, English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, London, 1968, pp. 112-113, no. 15, cited.
A dish of this design and color palette is illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, London, 2013, p. 30, A.46, where the author suggests a probable attribution to Rotherhithe, where fragments have been found painted with very similar leaves. The circa production date is supplied by a drug jar dated 1658 painted with similar flowering plants including large rosettes similar to those seen on the present dish. A dish with similar characteristics dated 1663 was sold, Sotheby's London, May 15, 1979, lot 97.
Further dishes are illustrated by Anthony Ray, op. cit., pl. 5, no. 15; Ross E. Taggart, The Burnap Collection of English Pottery, Kansas City, 1967 p. 49, no. 111; and Michael Archer, English Delftware/Engels Delfts Aardewerk, exhibition catalogue, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 70, no. 42.
Further dishes are illustrated by Anthony Ray, op. cit., pl. 5, no. 15; Ross E. Taggart, The Burnap Collection of English Pottery, Kansas City, 1967 p. 49, no. 111; and Michael Archer, English Delftware/Engels Delfts Aardewerk, exhibition catalogue, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 70, no. 42.