Two English Delftware blue-and-white square-form flower bricks, circa 1750
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November 9, 03:18 PM GTNN
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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
9 cm and 9.5 cm high; 3 ⅝ in. and 3 ¾ in.
One:
Joseph V. Vizcarra collects ion, no. 90, bearing label;
Joseph V. Vizcarra collects ion, no. 90, bearing label;
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. New York, 12-14 April 1984, lot 431
The other:
Hodgkin collects
ion, bearing label
Both:
Sotheby's, New York, Mario Buatta, 23 January 2020, lot 474
A flower holder of this form painted with a slight variation of the pattern is in the Glaisher collects
ion at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated in Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, London, 2013, p. 304, I.4
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