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Lot 133

Four interesting English delftware plates, circa 1750-70

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

Sold for £768 inc. premium

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Four interesting English delftware plates, circa 1750-70

Fully painted in blue European landscapes, one with a shepherd conversing with a lady reclining on a rocky outcrop before a 'sponged tree' and ruined arch, one with a couple walking between tall 'sponged trees', the last two with a lady hanging out laundry on the balcony of an elaborate building, with further figures in the foreground, 22-23cm diam (4)

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Provenance
With Jonathan Horne, 1979 (one plate)
Graham Slater Collection

One of the last mentioned plates exhibited at the BADA 1979 exhibition, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, no.96. A similar plate to the first mentioned is illustrated by Frank Britton, London Delftware (1986), p.161, no.158 alongside the original source print engraved by Charles Albert de Lespilliez circa 1770, after the drawing by François de Cuvilliés. See also Michael Archer, Delftware (2013), p.150, no.B106 where two further plates with this scene are attributed to Lambeth (Abigail Griffith).

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