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Lot 34

A Bristol delftware 'Farmyard' plate, circa 1720-50

31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £625 inc. premium

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A Bristol delftware 'Farmyard' plate, circa 1720-50

Painted in very bright yellow, red and dark blue with a peacock standing on slender legs among 'sponged trees' in dark manganese, a single blue line at the rim, 22cm diam

Footnotes

A closely related example is illustrated by Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), p.222, fig.14.9. It was Frank Britton's work to categorise the collection by subject matter that led to the term Farmyard becoming a popular name for this series of plates.

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