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Lot 119

An English delftware bowl, circa 1760-75

31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An English delftware bowl, circa 1760-75

Attributed to London, the exterior powdered in manganese, the interior painted in blue with four comical fish, one in the centre, the others swimming around the rim, 24.4cm diam

Footnotes

Provenance:
Kenneth Hammitt, Skinner's sale 11 December 1993, lot 20
Syd Levethan, the Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 24 January 2011, lot 151

Literature:
Illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, the Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig. D319

Bowls with fish swimming inside were clearly popular with the export trade for many examples have been excavated at Williamsburg and other North American sites. Punchbowls decorated with fish are recorded and the inscription 'keep me swimming', inviting the owner to re-fill the bowl with punch as it gets emptied.

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