
Anna Burnside
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Professor F H Garner Collection
Sotheby's, 23 October 1968, lot 152 (dated)
With Archibald Frith Allbrook (dated)
David Zeitlin Collection (dated)
With Jonathan Horne, March 1990 (dated)
Graham Slater Collection
Illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.79, no.313C alongside others from the same original set. Merryman plates were made in sets of six, each with one line from a well-known drinking verse. Dated examples range from 1682 to 1752, illustrating the popularity of the sentiment. A set dated 1734 is illustrated by Frank Britton, London Delftware (1987), p.143 and an earlier one of 1717 by Louis Lipski and Michael Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.76.