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Two rare English delftware tiles, circa 1740-70 image 1
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Offered in support of Art Fund
Lot 150

Two rare English delftware tiles, circa 1740-70

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

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Two rare English delftware tiles, circa 1740-70

Both with the same scene of a smoking bottle kiln before two houses in a tree-studded landscape, one London, painted in blue, 13cm wide, the other Bristol, painted in manganese, the scene within a circular tramline border and with distinctive flowerheads at the corners, 13.3cm wide (2)

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Provenance
Louis L Lipski Collection, Sotheby's, 17 November 1981, lot 294 (part) (manganese)
With Jonathan Horne, June 1989 (blue)
Graham Slater Collection

Compare the painting styles to the remarkably similar scenes on two tiles respectively attributed to London and Bristol, which are illustrated and discussed by Jonathan Horne, English Tin-glazed Tiles (1989), p.46, nos.221 and 222.

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