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Lot 35

An attractive Bristol delftware dish, circa 1740

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,570 inc. premium

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An attractive Bristol delftware dish, circa 1740

Possibly Temple Back or Limekiln Lane, vibrantly painted with a three-tiered landscape spanning the entire upper surface of the dish, a spritely figure of a Chinese boy with a skipping rope between stylised trees sprouting from hilly outcrops, 34.2cm diam

Footnotes

This dish belongs to a distinctive group attributed to Limekiln Lane or Temple Back and is one of the larger examples of its type. Fragments from both sites display similar brushstrokes and the peculiar trees featured on the current lot styled as two ovals on parallel vertical lines were found at the latter site. An almost identical dish from the Bristol Art Gallery is illustrated by Garner and Archer, English Delftware (1948), pl.70C. A similar dish featuring a central figure with a bird from the Longridge Collection was sold by Christie's on 11 June 2010, lot 1225. See Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection (2000), p.154 for a discussion of these energetic figures possibly as acrobats, taken from contemporary scenes of circus performers.

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