English delftware blue dash border tulip charger 17th century London attribution

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£4250

Dated: 1680 to 1690 Probably London England

This English delftware charger is decorated with tulips, lilies, carnations, and spiraling flower buds, all set within a spectacular, dense group of leaves, and painted in vibrant colors of turquoise-green, blue, manganese, and ochre. The border is a blue dash with a yellow line. The reverse is tin-glazed with a later added removable wire retainer to enable hanging

Diameter: 14 inches

Current Condition: Fine old stable hairline at rim left unrestored..see images.

Provenance: Label of the Louis Gautier Collection, then with the Lord Revelstoke Collection, followed by Sothebys December 2013

Literature: Michael Archer ,Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge .page39

£4250    $5737

Description

This English delftware charger is decorated with tulips, lilies, carnations, and spiraling flower buds, all set within a spectacular, dense group of leaves, and painted in vibrant colors of turquoise-green, blue, manganese, and ochre. The border is a blue dash with a yellow line. The reverse is tin-glazed with a later added removable wire retainer to enable hanging