Live Auction 7561Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia
A LONDON DELFT TULIP CHARGER
Lot 168

A LONDON DELFT TULIP CHARGER

CIRCA 1670

Closed18 June 2008

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GBP 13,750

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A LONDON DELFT TULIP CHARGER
CIRCA 1670
Of large size, painted with ochre and managanese tulips with pale-green manganese-edged foliage within a blue and manganese concentric line border, several small cracks to rim, rim chipping at 2 and 8 o'clock, small glaze damage to centre
15¾ in. (40 cm.) diameter

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 25 November 1997, lot 183.
Acquired from Alistair Sampson, 4 December 1997.

Specialist note

A strikingly similar example is illustrated in Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, p. 56, no. 3.18. Interestingly three related dishes are known where the central flower is replaced with a dated medallion ranging in date between 1663 and 1675.