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Lot 43

Two English delftware plates with powder grounds, circa 1740-50

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two English delftware plates with powder grounds, circa 1740-50

One large plate painted in blue with an octagonal panel of Chinese figures at a table, the powder blue ground with small panels of birds and sprigs, 26.5cm diam, and a plate with a powder manganese ground reserving a panel of a 'Long Eliza' and a border of four fish, 22.2cm (chips and fine crack) (2)

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The central subject on the blue ground plate is found on a manganese-ground plate dated 1741, see Lipski and Archer p.109, fig.477. The birds in the border resemble those found on Vauxhall delftware.

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