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A very rare English delftware plate, circa 1740 image 1
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Offered in support of Art Fund
Lot 121

A very rare English delftware plate, circa 1740

15 April 2025, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,200 inc. premium

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A very rare English delftware plate, circa 1740

Probably Bristol, freely painted in red, blue and green with a smoking bottle kiln before a small house and fences, 22.8cm diam

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Provenance
With Garry Atkins, 1994
Graham Slater Collection

A plate painted with a very similar design in blue is illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (2013), p.97, no.B25. Others were sold by Bonhams on 10 September 2003, lot 38 and 12 November 2014, lot 17 (part). It is exceptionally rare to find a scene such as this in polychrome. For a depiction of a bottle kiln on a flower brick, see lot 122 in this sale.

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