
Anna Burnside
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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.