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A Bristol Delft Adam and Eve charger Circa 1740.
8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,240 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Bristol Delft Adam and Eve charger
Circa 1740.
Painted in blue with the naked figures flanking a tree, a manganese serpent coiled around its trunk, manganese apples amongst the sponged green foliage, within a blue line rim sponged in blue, with tin glazed back, 34cm diam (fine crack, some footrim chips and glaze flakes to rim)
Painted in blue with the naked figures flanking a tree, a manganese serpent coiled around its trunk, manganese apples amongst the sponged green foliage, within a blue line rim sponged in blue, with tin glazed back, 34cm diam (fine crack, some footrim chips and glaze flakes to rim)
Footnotes
For a very similar charger possibly painted by the same hand, with a variation of colours but with the same line depicting the bodies and husk-like treatment of the hair, see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), p 60. fig 3.35. Another related charger but with a more hesitant use of line in the depiction of the figures is illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware (1997), p 85, fig A21, with a possible attribution to the factories of Redcliff Back or Richard Frank
