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Lot 87

A Bristol delftware polychrome dish, circa 1735-40

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

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

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A Bristol delftware polychrome dish, circa 1735-40

Probably Limekiln Lane, painted in red, green, yellow and blue with a bald-headed Chinese figure standing in front of a fretwork fence and waving a flag, in a simple landscape with a pine tree and rocks to one side, a single narrow blue line at the rim, 33.5cm diam

Footnotes

Provenance:
With Jonathan Horne, A Collection of English Pottery, Part XIV (1994), fig.394
Syd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 24 January 2011, lot 115

Literature:
Illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, the Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.D120. No other example of this curious design appears to have been published.

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