Live Auction 7561Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia
A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CIRCULAR PIERCED FLOWER-BOWL
Lot 33

A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CIRCULAR PIERCED FLOWER-BOWL

CIRCA 1685

Closed18 June 2008

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A LONDON DELFT BLUE AND WHITE CIRCULAR PIERCED FLOWER-BOWL
CIRCA 1685
Painted with an Oriental figure seated by rockwork, the reverse with grasses rockwork and a tree, the bleu Persan top with a central circular aperture surrounded by radiating pierced holes edged in white within a pendant leaf border, slight chipping to rims
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diam.

Acquired from Jonathan Horne, London, 25 February 2003.

Specialist note

For a discussion of the similarity of form between this flower-bowl and butter-dishes found during excavations at Vauxhall, see Edwards, English Ceramic Circle Transactions, 1984, vol. 12, part 16, pls. 55-56.