AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BOSCOBEL OAK PLATE

Charles II is depicted hiding in the Boscobel Oak, an event that took place after his defeat by the Parliamentarians at the Battle of Worcester in 1651. Charles II was eventually succeeded by his niece Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs. At the time of her death in 1714 there was an uprising against the succession of the German Hanoverians. This plate shows support for the Jacobite cause as well as confirming the continuation of the Act of Union (1707). An identical plate is in the collection of the Reading Museum and Art Gallery (accession no. RMAG.1962.178.1). A similar plate from the Longridge Collection was sold by Christie's in New York on 24 January 2011, lot 66. A similar plate is illustrated by Ross E. Taggart, The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 1967, p. 46, no. 87.