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A DUTCH DELFT DATED RECTANGULAR BLUE AND WHITE PLAQUE
Lot 30 DONGXI STUDIO - WORKS OF ART FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION (Lots 21, 24-26, 30, 31, 33-36, 40-41 & 43)

A DUTCH DELFT DATED RECTANGULAR BLUE AND WHITE PLAQUE

1658

Closed2 December 2015

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A DUTCH DELFT DATED RECTANGULAR BLUE AND WHITE PLAQUE
1658
Painted, perhaps by Leonard Bramer, with a scene from 1 Kings 13:24, with the slain body of a man from Judah lying on the road, the lion and his donkey beside him near cattle and two farm girls, the foreground inscribed I.REG.13.24 above the date 1658 (chip to upper left corner, minor chipping and glaze flaking to rims)
12 in. x 9 ¾ in. (30.4 cm. x 24.9 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 22-23 February 1988, lot 257.

Specialist note

This plaque is one of three known dated examples which are probably painted by the same hand and are derived in part from a landscape engraving by Nicolaas Berchem (1620-1683). One of these, which is also rectangular, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and depicts Elijah and the ravens with the cows to the right, and is illustrated by Jan Daniël van Dam, Delffse Porceleyne, Dutch Delftware 1620-1850, Amsterdam, 2004, p. 42, no. 16, where the author attributes it to the Delft painter and draughtsman Leonard Bramer (1596-1674). The other plaque (of octagonal shape) from the Glaisher Collection, is painted with only the group of cows and without any religious subject matter included, and is now is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, museum no. C.2469-1928.