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Lot 34

A good English Delftware pomegranate charger, circa 1670-90

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A good English Delftware pomegranate charger, circa 1670-90

London or possibly Brislington, boldly painted with three orange stylised fruit on a bed of turquoise leaves and formal blue bud motifs, the rim with a yellow line and blue dash border, with a lead-glazed back, the footrim pierced, 34.5cm diam

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Provenance
Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection, Christie's New York, 24 January 2011, lot 12

Illustrated by Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection (2000), p.181, D155. A very similar charger is discussed by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (2013), p.55, A.82. This charger has the same turquoise green leaves as the present lot, a pigment which seems to replace the grassier green used on earlier chargers of this type in the latter part of the 17th century.

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