Property of the Shelter Island Historical Society, sold to benefit the Museum Collections Program
An English Delftware Circular Footed Stand, Circa 1720
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January 24, 08:59 PM GMT
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1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Property of the Shelter Island Historical Society, sold to benefit the Museum Collections Program
An English Delftware Circular Footed Stand
Circa 1720
possibly a teapot stand, painted with a medallion of a peacock perched on stylized rockwork among flowering branches, with a small insect above, with a dentil border at the rim, raised upon three scrolling feet picked out in blue foliate crolls
Diamter 5 1/8 in.
A example of this form was in the Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection, sold, Replica Shoes 's New York, January 20, 2006, lot 45 and subsequently entered the collection of Irvin & Anita Schorsch, sold, their sale, Replica Shoes 's New York, January 20, 2016, lot. 370. A polychrome example of this form, painted with the same border of stiff leaves, is illustrated in Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, p. 378, cat no. D343. Other similar stands are illustrated in John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, p. 115, cat. nos. 121 and 122, and Michael Archer, Delftware, The Tin-Glazed Earthenwares of the British Isles, p. 342, G. 26, where both authors discuss the function of stands of this type as either salvers or teapot stands and their derivation from earlier silver forms.
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