Live Auction 7561Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia
A BRISLINGTON DELFT SMALL ROYAL PORTRAIT DISH
Lot 79

A BRISLINGTON DELFT SMALL ROYAL PORTRAIT DISH

CIRCA 1685

Closed18 June 2008

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A BRISLINGTON DELFT SMALL ROYAL PORTRAIT DISH
CIRCA 1685
Painted in tones of blue, manganese and yellow with a quarter-length portrait of James II wearing a blue and ochre crown flanked by J2/R in manganese within an ochre line rim, very slight flaking to rim, two chips to footrim
7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) diameter

With Stoner and Evans Inc., New York City.
Iron-red inventory number 1951.592.
Acquired from Alistair Sampson, 19 January 1989.

Specialist note

A similar example of this extremely rare subject was in the Lipski Collection, Sotheby's London, 10th March 1981, lot 47.
See another dish, almost certainly by the same hand, painted with a portrait of King William, was sold by Sotheby's London, 22nd October 1974, lot 92.