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Lot 145

Three Liverpool delftware plates and a dish, circa 1740-50

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

Sold for £1,152 inc. premium

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Three Liverpool delftware plates and a dish, circa 1740-50

Finely painted in blue with landscape scenes, one plate with two European figures seated before a 'liver bird' perched on a branch, one with a robed figure feeding deer by the waterside, a duck swimming in the foreground, the border with four sprays of prunus with a squirrel, and one with a hunting scene depicting an oriental gentleman shooting an arrow at a leaping stag, the rims edged in brown, the dish with an oriental gentleman carrying a bird in a cage and two parrots perched on a shoulder pole, further birds in a tree before him, 21-22cm diam (4)

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Provenance
Christie's, 6 December 1982, lot 66 (two figures)
With Jonathan Horne, 1997 (squirrel plate)
Graham Slater Collection

Two plates depicting a similar stag hunting scene, both dated 1738, are illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), p.99, nos.428 and 429.

Roger Massey illustrates the source of the 'Bird Catcher' design seen on the dish or soup plate in this lot, which would appear to be an engraving by William Toms, in John Barrow's Dictionarium Polygraphicum, published in 1735. See Massey, English delftware and the influence of Chinese blue and white porcelain, 1730-50, ECC Trans, Vol.31 (2020), p.41, fig.5.

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