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A very rare delftware charger, dated 1703
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,062.50 inc. premium
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A very rare delftware charger, dated 1703
Probably London, with an everted rim and turned foot, painted in blue and yellow outlined in black with a windmill, the stone tower inscribed with the date '1703', before three cottages with distinctive fenestrated gable ends, smaller buildings and tall green sponged trees in the distance, similarly sponged bushes in the foreground, a blue line inside the 'blue dash' border around the rim, the back with a lead-tin glaze wash, 35cm diam
Footnotes
A very similar charger decorated with a virtually identical scene dated 1704, no doubt from the same workshop, is in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection (accession no. 1937-200) and is illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.36, no.88. Lipski and Archer note that this charger bears a number of similarities to two groups of English chargers - those painted with full-length portraits of William III similarly outlined in manganese with similar sponged tress in bright green, and 'blue dash' chargers painted with portraits of Queen Anne seated with her generals. It is interesting to note that, in common with the William III chargers, both the present charger and that in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection have tin-glaze washes to the back.
A 'blue dash' dish attributed to London painted in a very similar palette and style with a figure on horseback is illustrated by Leslie B Grigsby, The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), Vol.2, p.64, no.D31 where it is suggested that this distinctive group may have been produced by a single individualistic workshop in England for a short period during the first decade of the 18th century.