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A London Delftware Polychrome Tulip Charger, Circa 1660

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January 24, 06:16 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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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), Replica Shoes '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, Replica Shoes '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.