AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE POLYCHROME ROYAL PORTRAIT PLATE CIRCA 1689-94 |

probably London, painted in the center with a bust length portrait of King William and Queen Mary, crowned, William wearing coronation robes, initialed W M and R, the lower section painted with blue drapery, within three blue concentric circles.

Bonham's, London, December 8, 2004, lot 214
Jonathan Horne, London, December, 2004
Vogel Collection no. 748

There is a restored rim chip at 8 o'clock. Along the rim there are touched up glaze chips
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Notable plates of comparison include those published by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, London 2013, p. 85, B.4, where the author notes Norfolk House as a possible production site, and the example published by Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, London, 2000, Vol. 2, pp. 56-57, D24. A plate with a particularly close treatment of the figures was sold, Sotheby's, New York, April 16, 1993, lot 1.