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Lot 135

Four attractive Bristol delftware plates, circa 1750-60

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

Sold for £896 inc. premium

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Four attractive Bristol delftware plates, circa 1750-60

In the so-called 'Bowen' style, fully painted in blue with extensive European landscape scenes incorporating tall 'sponged trees', one with two ladies walking before a house, one with a lady walking before an obelisk, one with a coastal scene of two figures in a boat before further figures in boats and buildings, the last with three figures in a boat also before distant buildings, 22.3-22.7cm diam (4)

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Provenance
With Jonathan Horne (first and third mentioned)
With Tristram Jellinek (second mentioned)
With Garry Atkins, 1992 (second mentioned)
Graham Slater Collection

The first mentioned plate exhibited at the BADA 1979 exhibition, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, no.89. A plate from the Willett Collection, signed 'Bowen Fecit' was lost in the Alexandra Palace fire but as a result the name of Bowen is forever linked to a style of painting with European landscapes and sponged trees. For a discussion on the 'Bowen style' and the dating of similar pieces, see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection (1982), pp.276-97.

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