Live Auction 7561Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia
A LONDON DELFT WHITE OVAL FECUNDITY DISH
Lot 24

A LONDON DELFT WHITE OVAL FECUNDITY DISH

CIRCA 1650, SOUTHWARK OR PERHAPS ROTHERHITHE

Closed18 June 2008

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A LONDON DELFT WHITE OVAL FECUNDITY DISH
CIRCA 1650, SOUTHWARK OR PERHAPS ROTHERHITHE
The moulded body after an original by Bernard Palissy with a naked lady surrounded by putti on a draped couch, the border moulded with oval and circular depressions flanked by human masks and baskets of fruit, damage and repair at 10 and 11 o'clock, two cracks to border at 2 and 4 o'clock, chips and glaze flaking to rims and raised points
18¼ in. (46.5 cm.) wide

The John Philip Kassebaum Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 7 October 1992, log 22.
Acquired from Alistair Sampson, London, 8 October 1992.

Specialist note

The allegory of Fecundity was almost certainly taken from a metal original used by Palissy and his successors in France. The English tin-glazed examples range in date from 1633 to 1697. The only two relevant fragments of this form were found on a Rotherhithe site. However an example at Colonial Williamsburg, dated 1661, has the initials of Richard Newman and his wife Elizabeth, who was manager at Pickleherring, Southwark. For a discussion of this type see Michael Archer, Delftware the the British Isles, a Catalogue of the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1997), pp. 109-112, nos. A. 61 and A. 62.