english delftware & dutch delft-spring 2014

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English Delftwares & Dutch Delft

Including A Private PHILADELPHIA collection

Spring 2014

A London Delftware Openwork Basket, Vauxhall, Circa 1755.

Dimensions: 8 1/2 inch diameter x 2 1/4 inch height.

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LONDON FACTORIES

A Large English Underglaze Blue Delftware Dish with Figures,

London,

Circa 1770.

The underglaze blue dish depicts a male and female figures by a rock, the female pointing to a

nearby ruin, a tree with sponged foliage and birds flying overhead.

Diameter: 13 3/4 inches

Reference: London Delftware, Frank Britton, Page 161, #158 for illustration of a plate with

the same design .

The author discusses the discovery of the print source for this design...originally drawn by

Francois de Cuvillies, who died in 1768, study of the large volume of his works in the Victoria and

Albert Museum indicated that they were almost certainly engraved by Lespilliez posthumously c.

1770

(Ref: VM98170) Price: $4,800.00

(COVER: (Ref: 7830) Price: $4,800.00)

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A English Delftware Underglaze Blue Deep Basin,

Probably Lambeth, London,

Circa 1740.

The deep basin painted with a Chinoiserie scene of two islands in a riverscape. Chinoiserie-styled figures, trees and rocks are

found in the rim-to-rim decoration, with lines of clouds and flocks of birds above. The underside decorated with X's and double

dashes. This basin form is exceptionally rare.

Diameter: Height: 10 inches x 2 inches.

Reference: Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Michael Archer. Page 254, Figure 30. A Shallow Bowl - probably London

(Lambeth) mid-eighteenth century. Dimensions of the comparative piece are 8 11/16 inches x 2 inches.

This rare shallow basin (or bowl) form is attributed to Lambeth, London by Archer in his publication through the provenance

of a similarly decorated plate found in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

(Ref: VM98157) Price: $2,200.00

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A Large London Delftware

Chinoiserie Dish,

Circa 1760-80.

The large dish with a well deco-

rated central well painted with a

Chinese figure holding a vase on

his lap while he leans against a

fence with in the background the

outlines of a stylized building.

The border with sparse scattered

flower heads and hanging flow-

ers.


Reference: London Delftware,

Frank Britton,, Page 159, # 154

and colour plate K, page 89 for a

similar plate.

(Ref: VM98126)

Price: $1,500.00

An English Large Delftware Dish

Decorated with a Cockerel,

Probably London,

Circa 1730.

The polychrome dish with stylized dec-

oration of a cockerel in the centre sur-

rounded by bands of green and yellow

with alternating green and yellow

leaves on the border.

Diameter: 13 inches

Reference: English Delftware in the

Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page

225, #14.22 for an identical dish.

(Ref: VM98147) Price: $2,800.00

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A Pair of English Underglaze Blue Delftware Plates decorated with Lotus,

Probably London,

Circa 1760.

The pair of plates are decorated in underglaze blue with the central well painted with a lotus plant growing in a pond surround-

ed by trees and plants. The border is ornately decorated with alternating circular diaper and fence work.

Diameter: 9 inches.

(Ref: VM98142) Price: $1,950.00

A Large English Delftware Dish with Heron,

Probably London,

Circa 1740-50.

The light underglaze blue dish depicts a crested heron standing on one

leg in the centre of the dish on a grassy mound with flowering plants to

either side. The border with four flowering stems with stylized insects

between.

Diameter: 13 1/2 inch

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton,

Page 223, # 14.14 for another crested heron described as perhaps Lon-

don.

(Ref: VM98166) Price: $1,950.00

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A Large English Delftware Punch Bowl,

London or Bristol,

Circa 1740-50

The bowl is fully decorated in blue and white with stylized flowers and

geometrical motifs. The interior with a large blue and white central

floral composition with repeating stylized flower head and leaves on

the upper rim.

In the past, these bowls were thought of as Dutch, however today they

are considered more likely to be English. The decoration is frequently

similar at this time on Dutch and English pieces due to the cross-over

of workmen between the two countries.

Diameter: 13 3/4 inches x Height: 7 inches .

(Ref: VM98166) Price: $12,500.00

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A Large London Delftware Dish,

Circa 1760

The dish painted in pale colours of green,

yellow manganese and blue depicts a large

urn filled with blue flowers. A shallow bowl

sits behind also with a large similar flower.

The border with four designs, two of a flower

in a vase and the other two of a small flower.


(Ref: VM981

LIVERPOOL FACTORIES

A English Delftware Underglaze Blue Chinoiserie

Dish,

Probably Liverpool,

Circa 1760.

The dish depicts two Chinese ladies under a parasol in a

fenced garden with a figure above them standing on a cloud

holding a baby. The rim has alternating patterns of fences

and flowers.

Diameter: 12 inches.

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank

Britton, Page 196, #12.48. In the entry for 12.47, a poly-

chrome example, the author writes, “The subject is ex-

plained by W.H. Edmunds in Pointers and clues to the Sub-

jects of Chinese & Japanese Art (London 1934). Yao, last

but one of the Rulers of China ascended the throne in 2356

BC and reigned for ninety eight years! He debarred his un-

worthy son from heirship and appointed Shun, a Paragon of

Filial Piety, to succeed, giving him his two daughters in

marriage. Shun is said to have been nursed as a child by

the Dragon Queen of Long Hou”.

(Ref: VM98156) Price: $2,250.00

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An English Delftware

Underglaze Blue Chinoiserie Dish,

Liverpool,

Circa 1760.

The dish is painted in the central well with a Chinoiserie garden scene of a zig-zag garden fence with plants and bamboo grow-

ing nearby. The rim has scattered large flower heads.

Dimensions: 13 5/8 inches.

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 192, #12.31

(VM98161) Price: $1,500.00

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A Large English Polychrome

Delftware Dish,

Bristol,

Circa 1740-50.

The large dish is painted in the central well

with a Chinoiserie design of rockwork and an

ornate tall Chinese building with a bird on a

branch and zig-zag fencing below. The bor-

der with an alternating red and blue diaper

ground and blue-bordered cartouches with

flowering plants.


(Ref: VM98168) Price: $1,950.00

A Large English Underglaze Blue and

Manganese Delftware Dish,

Probably Bristol,

Circa 1760-70.

The dish is painted with an underglaze blue

and a manganese cracked ice ground on the

border. The central well depicts a Chinese

building under a weeping tree. The border

with the cracked ice ground separating four

blue rimmed cartouches of buildings and a

weeping tree.


Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol

Collection, Frank Britton, Page 199

#12.56/12.57/ 12.58 for several similar exam-

ples described as probably Bristol.

(Ref: VM98169) Price: $1,500.00

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Bristol FACTORIES

A Pair of English Delftware

Chinoiserie Plates,

Bristol,

Probably Temple Back Factory,

Circa 1760

The pair of plates depict an oriental

lady holding a fan beneath a tree with

a butterfly off to her left. The border

a band of trellis diaper alternating

with four large reserves holding styl-

ized branches.


Reference: British Delft at Williams-

burg, John Austin, page 174, #308 (in

blue) & 309 (predominately in Manga-

nese) for dishes with the same decora-

tion and border design.

(Ref: NY7882) Price: $950.00

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A Large English Delftware Dish Decorated with Birds,

Bristol,

Circa 1740.

The polychrome dish is painted with predominately iron-red and some green and blue depicting two birds in a stylized garden.

The border a scrolling leafy band in iron-red with some green and blue leaves.

Diameter: 13 1/4 inches.

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 189, # 12.20 for a plate with very similarly border.

(Ref: VM98128) Price: $3,500.00

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A Large English Delftware Dish Decorated with a Peacock,

Bristol

Circa 1760

The polychrome dish is decorated with a large peacock perched on a blue rockwork from which grows a large flowing tree with

insects flying to either side. The border with alternating oval panels of flower heads and orange diaper.


Reference: Three Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol - The Story of Bristol Pottery and Porcelain

(www.kalendar.demon.co.uk/delfbrg.htm for a similar dish)

(Ref: VM98129) Price: $2,000.00

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A Large English Delftware Dish decorated with a Basket

of Flowers

Bristol,

Circa 1730-50.

The large dish with a stylized Chinese hanging basket of flowers with

flying insects around within a distinctive dark blue diamond border.

The rim with stylized leaves and flowers predominately in green with

iron-red and blue.



Page 186, #12.9 for a basket of flowers with similar inner border.

(Ref: VM98130) Price: $1,950.00

A Pair of English Delftware Dishes with Distinctive Orange Diaper,

Bristol,

Circa 1740-60.

The pair of dishes are painted underglaze colours with a parrot watching a n insect perched upon a flowering tree within a circu-

lar roundel which is surrounded by two close blue bands and an outer band with a distinctive three cube building alternating

with swirls. The rim with blue bordered oval cartouches of plants growing out of rockwork on an orange diaper ground.


(Ref: VM98131) Price: $6,500.00

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An English Delftware Underglaze

Blue Dish with Swan,

Possibly Bristol,

Circa 1740

The underglaze blue dish is painted in the

central well within a circular roundel with a

swan sitting on water and a peacock up in a

nearby tree. The roundel is banded by a

distinctive castellated design. The border

has alternating panels of a stylized plant

and a flowerhead within diaper.


(Ref: VM98132) Price: $2,200.00

A Large English Delftware Dish

decorated with Buildings,

Probably Bristol

Circa 1760-70.

The underglaze dish is decorated with

a rim-to-rim scene of several build-

ings in a landscape, the central three

story building with smoke emanating

from its chimney.


(Ref: VM98147) Price: $1,350.00

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A Pair of English Delftware Polychrome Chinoiserie Plates Decorated with Parrot,

Lambeth High Street,

Circa 1760.

The plates decorated in bright colours of yellow, red, blue and green depict a parrot perched on a rockwork outcrop surrounded

by foliage.


Reference: British Delft at Williamsburg, John Austin, Page 178, #323.

London Delftware, Frank Britton, page 159, #155 where the author mentions that a sherd of this pattern is illustrated in Gar-

ner, ECC Trans 1937, pl. XIV (f) (page 57).

(Ref: VM98137) Price: $1,800.00

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A Large English Delftware Adam & Eve Dish,

The Temptation,

Probably Bristol (Redcliff Back),

Circa 1745-55.

The charger is decorated in polychrome with a sponged blue border and a central scene of Adam and Eve with the serpent en-

twined around a tree with an apple in its mouth.

Diameter: 13 inches

Provenance: W.L. Little Collection, #14.

Reference: Delftware at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Michael Archer, Page 27, #A: 43, where the design is called The Temptation.

Archer writes that....”This charger which belongs to a small group, introduces a new composition ... The same treatment of the

scene appears on two dated objects. The first, a plaque, has the date 1751 and the other a dish of conventional mid-century

form with the inscription John Archer/1755.”

(Ref: VM98133) Price: $12,500.00

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Two English Delftware Polychrome Large Dishes,

Probably Bristol,

Circa 1740.

The dishes are painted with a large central stylized plant with three flowers growing from the base. The border with alternat-

ing diaper and flowers, all with a distinctive lime green, iron red, blue and yellow.

Diameter: 12 3/4 inches & 13 1/2 inches

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 227, #14.29-14.31

(Ref: VM98141 Price: $3,000.00

An English Delftware Underglaze Blue Dish

decorated with unusual Buildings,

Probably Bristol,

Circa 1740.

The dish is decorated in underglaze blue outline and wash with a

rim to rim scene of a grouping of buildings around a small tree-

topped hill with ships off to the left side and groupings of birds

above. In the foreground a fence and tree stumps.



Page 287, #18.35 for a similar scene with the same type of decora-

tion in the foreground.

(Ref: VM98149) Price: $1,950.00

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An English Delftware Plate in the Minosa Pattern,

Probably Wincanton,

Circa 1740

The underglaze blue plate has a central plant within a triple circular panel with

three wild plants growing out to the rim with stylized insects in between.

Diameter: 9 inches

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection by Frank Britton, Page

305, figure 19.49 for a dish with similar decoration and Shape I body.

(Ref: VM98155) Price: $550.00

WINCANTON FACTORY

DUTCH DELFT

A Pair of Dutch Delft Polychrome Plates,

Circa 1760.

Diameter: 9 inches.

(Ref: VM98144) Price: $1,950.00

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A Pair of Dutch Delft Underglaze Blue Small Dishes,

Late 18th century.

The small deep dishes are painted in a dark underglaze blue with stylized plants and rocks with a band of scattered leaves be-

tween two blue bands at the rim.


(Ref: VM98150) Price: $750.00

A Dutch Delft Tromp L'oeil

Tureen and Cover,

Circa 1800.

The tureen in the form of a gourd rests

upon a large leaf. The tureen is colored

green with the cover yellow. The finial

in the form of flower buds.

(Ref: NY04592) Price: $2,500.00

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A Massive Dutch Delft Imari

Vase & Cover,

Circa 1870

The massive tin-glazed earthen-

ware vase is of hexagonal reeded

form decorated in an Imari palette

with each panel decorated with

alternating scenes of birds

amongst trees and rockwork and

panels of plants separated with

stylized leaf shaped designs. The

cover is surmounted with a large

lion on its hind legs holding a

shaped shield.

Height: 44 1/2 x 23 inches wide;

Cover 13 1/2 inches high.

(Ref: NY07279)

Price: $19,000.00

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A Pair of Dutch Tin-glazed Earthenware Models of a Dog & Cat,

Tichelaar Brothers, Makkum, Holland.

Circa 1870-80

The charming figures sit on their haunches on a raised octagonal raised base with a green grassy top with the sides with a yel-

low ground highlighted in red depicting leafy scrolls. Each figure is painted in manganese with their heads slightly turned and

around each neck is a collar in similar colouration to the base. The dog has a moulded padlock hanging from the collar.

Height: 7 inches.

Mark: They are marked with 2 crossed T's, their mark from ca. 1870-80. (The brothers Tichelaar - 2 crossed T's)

Makkum is a village in Friesland in the Netherlands with an over 400 year tradition of making pottery.

(Ref: NY7453) Price: $5,800.00

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A Dutch Delft Polychrome Chinoiserie Plate,

Circa 1760

The plate decorated with two figures, one with a turban in a colourful landscape. The border with alternating panels of car-

touches with flowers and a distinctive stylized cell pattern.

Diameter: 9 inches

(Ref: VM98134) Price: $1,250.00

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A Set of Six Dutch Delft Underglaze Blue Peacock Plates,

The Three Bells (De Drie Klokken) Factory,

Circa 1760

The rare surviving set of six plates brightly painted in the Peacock pattern with a central display of flowers and fruit arranged to

look like a peacock's tail. The border with alternating panels and the rim in yellow.

Diameter: 9 inches

(Ref:98138) Price: $7,500.00

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A Dutch Delft Polychrome Chinoiserie Plate,

Circa 1700-20.

The pancake shaped plate is decorated with two Chinese figures in a garden landscape with red fence and pagoda in the back-

ground.


Mark: Grieksche A in red

Reference: Dutch Majolica & Delftware from the Edwin van Drecht Collection, Frits Scholten, Page 140, #121 for a dish similarly

painted.

(Ref: VM98146) Price: $1,450.00

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A Dutch Delft Pillow form Fluted Dish,

Circa 1680.

The circular small dish has a raised circular center then an inner border of fluted design with the other rim also fluted with twen-

ty nine individual flutes each painted with a single flower-head.


Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 53, #3.6 where a white dish of very similar form is

called continental or London.

(Ref: Vm98148) Price: $2,200.00

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A Superb Pair of Dutch Delft Polychrome Chinoiserie Plates,

Circa 1760

The pancake form plates with flared rim are painted in underglaze blue and white with the central well depicting three large ce-

ramic urns each holding flowers. The border with alternating panels of an insect and a tight diaper.


Provenance: Private Pennsylvania Collection; with Gary Atkins.

(Ref: VM98154) Price: $1,950.00

A Dutch Delft Large Dish with Tree Plant Pattern,

The Porcelain Ax.

Circa 1750.

The large underglaze blue dish is painted in the central well with

a large central flowering tree by a wood fence with tulips growing

below with an x-shaped border surround. The full border with

leafy scrolls.

Diameter: 13 /12 inches

Marks: in underglaze blue V and an ax.

(Ref: Vm98163) Price: $1,800.00

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A Large Polychrome Dutch Delft Dish,

Circa 1760

The dish depict a distinctive green coloured bamboo plant to the centre with ferns to the side and behind with three similar

ferns on the border.

Diameter 13 inches

(Ref: VM98167) Price: $2,800.00

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A Garniture of Large Dutch Delft Vases,

Early 20th century.

The set of large vases decorated in an Imari style of coloration.

Height: 14 1/2 inches covered vases 10 inches trumpet vases; maximum depth: 7 3/4 inches

Provenance: Private Collection; with Jesse Davis Antiques

(Ref: VM98173) Price: $8,750.00

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