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A pair of documentary Liverpool delftware plates dated 1750 and another pair of plates

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A pair of documentary Liverpool delftware plates dated 1750 and another pair of plates

The pair painted in blue with peony, pine and bamboo, the reverses inscribed 'Timothy Hoyle of Stublee in Rochdale Parish 1750' and 'Richard Bury of Royley in the Township of Wrighton 1750', 22.2cm diam (one broken), together with a pair of plates painted with flowering trees and panelled borders, 20cm and 19.7cm (4)

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The inscribed plates were exhibited in the ECC Exhibition, 2006. They belong to a curious group of plates, all with the same pattern of which Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware, pp.122-3, record six examples dated 1749 and 1750, made for different individuals in Oldham, Wrighton, Rochdale and Bury, all towns in Lancashire.

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