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Lot 5

A rare commemorative London delftware bowl
circa 1760

14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare commemorative London delftware bowl

circa 1760
Probably Lambeth High Street, William Griffith, the exterior painted in blue with a Chinese fence flanked by trailing floral and foliate branches, the interior inscribed 'To Granby the Brave.', a border of floral and diaper panels below the interior rim, 22cm diam (fine cracks, typical rim chips)

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A bowl with the same pattern on the exterior is illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware (1997), F 32, p 301. It bears a different interior inscription and is inscribed 'I Clark 1760' on the underside. Fragments with related decoration have been excavated at Lambeth. John Manners, Marquis of Granby, was commander in chief of the British contingent in the Seven Years War. He led a brilliant charge of the British cavalry at Warburg in 1760. The French were heavily defeated with the loss of 1500 men

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