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A rare English delftware charger bowl, circa 1660-70 image 1
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Offered in support of Art Fund
Lot 92

A rare English delftware charger bowl, circa 1660-70

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

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A rare English delftware charger bowl, circa 1660-70

Probably Southwark, the deep circular centre within a flanged rim, painted with tulips and carnations in blue, yellow, orange, green and manganese, within a curious chevron rope border in blue and yellow, and a blue dash rim, the underside with a lead-glaze, 31cm diam

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Provenance
With Tristram Jelinek, 1976
Graham Slater Collection

This is a most curious variation on the typical shape of a charger, with an unusual deep centre. Graham Slater noted that there was a bowl of the same shape in Saffron Walden Museum. This pattern of tulips and carnations (or gillyflowers) is discussed by Michael Archer and Brian Morgan, Fair as China Dishes (1977), fig.21, where the authors suggest the design derives from Ottoman (Isnik) pottery. Interestingly, a similar border of a rope chevron occurs on the La Fecondité dish dated 1659 formerly in the Rous Lench Collection, see Graham Slater's ECC paper (1999), figs.29 and 30 where the present lot is also illustrated.

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