Tin-glazed earthenware catalogue 2016

English, Dutch & French Tin Glazed Earthenwares

A Rare Pair of Liverpool Delftware Fazackerley Cornucopia Wall Pockets, Circa 1760.

Dimensions: 7 3/4 inches high x 5 3/4 wide x 3 inches deep Price: $7,500.00

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LONDON FACTORIES

A Large English Underglaze Blue Delftware Dish with Figures, London, Circa 1770.

The underglaze blue dish depicts a male and female figures by a rock, the female pointing to a nearby ruin, a tree with sponged foliage and birds flying overhead.

Diameter: 13 3/4 inches Reference: London Delftware, Frank Britton, Page 161, #158 for illustration of a plate with the same design .

The author discusses the discovery of the print source for this design...originally drawn by Francois de Cuvillies, who died in 1768, study of the large volume of his works in the Victoria and Albert Museum indicated that they were almost certainly engraved by Lespilliez posthumously c.

1770 (Ref: VM98170)

Price: $3,000.00

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A English Delftware Underglaze Blue Deep Basin, Probably Lambeth, London, Circa 1740.

The deep basin painted with a Chinoiserie scene of two islands in a riverscape. Chinoiserie-styled figures, trees and rocks are found in the rim-to-rim decoration, with lines of clouds and flocks of birds above. The underside decorated with X's and double dashes. This basin form is exceptionally rare.

Diameter: Height: 10 inches x 2 inches.

Reference: Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Michael Archer. Page 254, Figure 30. A Shallow Bowl - probably London (Lambeth) mid-eighteenth century. Dimensions of the comparative piece are 8 11/16 inches x 2 inches.

This rare shallow basin (or bowl) form is attributed to Lambeth, London by Archer in his publication through the provenance of a similarly decorated plate found in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

(Ref: VM98157)

Price: $1,800.00 3

A Large London Delftware Chinoiserie Dish, Circa 1760-80.

The large dish with a well decorated central well painted with a Chinese figure holding a vase on his lap while he leans against a fence with in the background the outlines of a stylized building.

The border with sparse scattered flower heads and hanging flowers.

Diameter: 13 1/2 inches Reference: London Delftware, Frank Britton,, Page 159, # 154 and colour plate K, page 89 for a similar plate.

(Ref: VM98126) Price: $1,250.00

An English Large Delftware Dish Decorated with a Cockerel, Probably London, Circa 1730.

The polychrome dish with stylized decoration of a cockerel in the centre surrounded by bands of green and yellow with alternating green and yellow leaves on the border.

Diameter: 13 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 225, #14.22 for an identical dish.

(Ref: VM98127)

Price: $1,500.00

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A Pair of English Underglaze Blue Delftware Plates decorated with Lotus, Probably London, Circa 1760.

The pair of plates are decorated in underglaze blue with the central well painted with a lotus plant growing in a pond surrounded by trees and plants. The border is ornately decorated with alternating circular diaper and fence work.

Diameter: 9 inches.

(Ref: VM98142)

Price: $1,250.00 A Large English Delftware Dish with Heron, Probably London, Circa 1740-50.

The light underglaze blue dish depicts a crested heron standing on one leg in the centre of the dish on a grassy mound with flowering plants to either side. The border with four flowering stems with stylized insects between.

Diameter: 13 1/2 inch Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 223, # 14.14 for another crested heron described as perhaps London.

(Ref: VM98166) 5

Price: $1,250.00

A Large London Delftware Dish, Circa 1760 The dish painted in pale colours of green, yellow manganese and blue depicts a large urn filled with blue flowers. A shallow bowl sits behind also with a large similar flower.

The border with four designs, two of a flower in a vase and the other two of a small flower.

Diameter: 13 1/4 inches (Ref: VM98172) $1,500.00

A London Delftware Openwork Basket, Vauxhall, Circa 1755.

Dimensions: 8 1/2 inch diameter x 2 1/4 inch height.

(NY7830) $3,500.0 6

An English Delftware Underglaze Blue Chinoiserie Dish, Liverpool, Circa 1760.

The dish is painted in the central well with a Chinoiserie garden scene of a zig-zag garden fence with plants and bamboo growing nearby. The rim has scattered large flower heads.

Dimensions: 13 5/8 inches.

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 192, #12.31

(VM98161)

Price: $1,250.00 7

A Rare & Charming Bristol Delftware Plate, Circa 1740-50.

The plate is decorated very whimsically with sponged manganese and a central star design containing a chinoiserie fence.

Dimensions: 8 7/8 inches x 1 1/4 inches (NY8269)

An English Delftware Plate, William & Abigail Griffith, Lambeth, Circa 1760 A manganese decorated plate with a simple stylized flower head in the centre and on the rim a band of sixteen repeating open flower heads.

Diameter: 7 3/8 inches.

Reference: Delftware: The tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles, Michael Archer, P107, colour plate 57, B,35 for a plate with a similar designed border and central flower head but in green, orange and manganese.

On page 134 it is mentioned that Garner found fragments of the border design in Lambeth and also at 129 Lambeth Toad in 1973.

(NY8035)

Price: $650.00

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Price: $950

A Large English Polychrome Delftware Dish, Bristol, Circa 1740-50.

The large dish is painted in the central well with a Chinoiserie design of rockwork and an ornate tall Chinese building with a bird on a branch and zig-zag fencing below. The border with an alternating red and blue diaper ground and blue-bordered cartouches with flowering plants.

Diameter: 13 1/4 inches

(Ref: VM98168)

Price: $1,500.00

A Large English Underglaze Blue and Manganese Delftware Dish, Probably Bristol, Circa 1760-70.

The dish is painted with an underglaze blue and a manganese cracked ice ground on the border. The central well depicts a Chinese building under a weeping tree. The border with the cracked ice ground separating four blue rimmed cartouches of buildings and a weeping tree.

Diameter: 13 1/4 inches

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 199 #12.56/12.57/ 12.58 for several similar examples described as probably Bristol.

(Ref: VM98169)

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Price: $950.00

Bristol FACTORIES

A Pair of English Delftware Chinoiserie Plates, Bristol, Probably Temple Back Factory, Circa 1760 The pair of plates depict an oriental lady holding a fan beneath a tree with a butterfly off to her left. The border a band of trellis diaper alternating with four large reserves holding stylized branches.

Diameter: 8 3/4 inches

Reference: British Delft at Williamsburg, John Austin, page 174, #308 (in blue) & 309 (predominately in Manganese) for dishes with the same decoration and border design.

(Ref: NY7882)

Price: $950.00

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A Large English Delftware Dish Decorated with Birds, Bristol, Circa 1740.

The polychrome dish is painted with predominately iron-red and some green and blue depicting two birds in a stylized garden.

The border a scrolling leafy band in iron-red with some green and blue leaves.

Diameter: 13 1/4 inches.

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 189, # 12.20 for a plate with very similarly border.

(Ref: VM98128)

Price: $1,300.00 11

A Large English Delftware Dish Decorated with a Peacock, Bristol Circa 1760 The polychrome dish is decorated with a large peacock perched on a blue rockwork from which grows a large flowing tree with insects flying to either side. The border with alternating oval panels of flower heads and orange diaper.

Diameter: 13 1/4 inches Reference: Three Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol - The Story of Bristol Pottery and Porcelain (www.kalendar.demon.co.uk/delfbrg.htm for a similar dish) (Ref: VM98129)

Price: $1,250.00 12

A Large English Delftware Dish decorated with a Basket of Flowers , Bristol, Circa 1730-50.

The large dish with a stylized Chinese hanging basket of flowers with flying insects around within a distinctive dark blue diamond border. The rim with stylized leaves and flowers predominately in green with iron-red and blue.

Diameter: 13 1/4 inches.

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 186, #12.9 for a basket of flowers with similar inner border.

(Ref: VM98130)

Price: $1,250.00

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An English Delftware Underglaze Blue Dish with Swan, Possibly Bristol, Circa 1740 The underglaze blue dish is painted in the central well within a circular roundel with a swan sitting on water and a peacock up in a nearby tree. The roundel is banded by a distinctive castellated design. The border has alternating panels of a stylized plant and a flowerhead within diaper.

Diameter: 10 1/4 inches

(Ref: VM98132)

Price: $1,800.00

A Large English Delftware Dish decorated with Buildings, Probably Bristol Circa 1760-70.

The underglaze dish is decorated with a rim-to-rim scene of several buildings in a landscape, the central three story building with smoke emanating from its chimney.

Diameter: 12 1/4 inches.

(Ref: VM98147)

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Price: $1,000.00

A Large English Delftware Adam & Eve Dish, The Temptation, Probably Bristol (Redcliff Back), Circa 1745-55.

The charger is decorated in polychrome with a sponged blue border and a central scene of Adam and Eve with the serpent entwined around a tree with an apple in its mouth.

Diameter: 13 inches Provenance: W.L. Little Collection, #14.

Reference: Delftware at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Michael Archer, Page 27, #A: 43, where the design is called The Temptation.

Archer writes that....�This charger which belongs to a small group, introduces a new composition ... The same treatment of the scene appears on two dated objects. The first, a plaque, has the date 1751 and the other a dish of conventional mid-century form with the inscription John Archer/1755.�

(Ref: VM98133)

Price: $9,500.00

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An English Delftware Underglaze Blue Dish decorated with unusual Buildings, Probably Bristol, Circa 1740.

The dish is decorated in underglaze blue outline and wash with a rim to rim scene of a grouping of buildings around a small treetopped hill with ships off to the left side and groupings of birds above. In the foreground a fence and tree stumps.

Diameter: 10 1/2 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 287, #18.35 for a similar scene with the same type of decoration in the foreground.

(Ref: VM98149)

Price: $1,500.00

WINCANTON FACTORY

An English Delftware Plate in the Minosa Pattern, Probably Wincanton, Circa 1740 The underglaze blue plate has a central plant within a triple circular panel with three wild plants growing out to the rim with stylized insects in between.

Diameter: 9 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection by Frank Britton, Page 305, figure 19.49 for a dish with similar decoration and Shape I body.

(Ref: VM98155)

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Price: $550.00

A English Delftware Underglaze Blue Chinoiserie Dish, Probably Liverpool, Circa 1760.

Diameter: 12 inches.

Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 196, #12.48. In the entry for 12.47, a polychrome example, the author writes, “The subject is explained by W.H. Edmunds in Pointers and clues to the Subjects of Chinese & Japanese Art (London 1934). Yao, last but one of the Rulers of China ascended the throne in 2356 BC and reigned for ninety eight years! He debarred his unworthy son from heirship and appointed Shun, a Paragon of Filial Piety, to succeed, giving him his two daughters in marriage. Shun is said to have been nursed as a child by the Dragon Queen of Long Hou�.

(Ref: VM98156)

Price: $1,750.00 17

DUTCH DELFT

A Dutch Delft Garniture of Five Vases and Covers, Mid-18th Century.

The garniture consists of three covered vases, each of faceted ovoid form, with a dog-form knop and a pair of covered beakerform vases, each with dog-form knop.

The vases bearing partial printed collection labels Etienne DeLaun..., Amsterdam (Etienne Delaunoy was an Amsterdam-based dealer, selling only high range Delftware) and the numeral 4 to the undersides.

Dimensions: Height of ovoid vase 15 inches (38.1 cm). Depth: 8 inches (NY8020)

Price: $15,000.00

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A Massive Dutch Delft Imari Vase & Cover, Circa 1870 The massive tin-glazed earthenware vase is of hexagonal reeded form decorated in an Imari palette with each panel decorated with alternating scenes of birds amongst trees and rockwork and panels of plants separated with stylized leaf shaped designs. The cover is surmounted with a large lion on its hind legs holding a shaped shield.

Height: 44 1/2 x 23 inches wide; Cover 13 1/2 inches high.

(Ref: NY07279) Price: $19,000.00

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A Polychrome Dutch Delft Peacock Dish, De Blompot Factory, Circa 1760.

The large polychrome Delft dish is painted in a pattern known as the Peacock or Fan pattern depicting a Chinoiserie jardiniere filled with stylized flowers and plants.

Dimensions: 13 1/2 inches Diameter.

Mark: BP in red script for the De Blompot factory, (The Flowerpot), Rotterdam, Netherlands (NY7910)

Price: $2,000.00 20

A Set of Six Dutch Delft Underglaze Blue Peacock Plates, The Three Bells (De Drie Klokken) Factory, Circa 1760 The rare surviving set of six plates brightly painted in the Peacock pattern with a central display of flowers and fruit arranged to look like a peacock's tail. The border with alternating panels and the rim in yellow.

Diameter: 9 inches (Ref:98138)

Price: $6,500.00 21

A Dutch Delft Polychrome Chinoiserie Plate, Circa 1700-20.

The pancake shaped plate is decorated with two Chinese figures in a garden landscape with red fence and pagoda in the background.

Diameter: 8 7/8 inches

Mark: Grieksche A in red

Reference: Dutch Majolica & Delftware from the Edwin van Drecht Collection, Frits Scholten, Page 140, #121 for a dish similarly painted.

(Ref: VM98146)

Price: $95.00 22

A Dutch Delft Pillow form Fluted Dish, Circa 1680.

The circular small dish has a raised circular center then an inner border of fluted design with the other rim also fluted with twenty nine individual flutes each painted with a single flower-head.

Diameter: 9 7/8 inches Reference: English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, Frank Britton, Page 53, #3.6 where a white dish of very similar form is called continental or London.

(Ref: Vm98148)

Price: $950.00 23

A Superb Pair of Dutch Delft Polychrome Chinoiserie Plates, Circa 1760 The pancake form plates with flared rim are painted in underglaze blue and white with the central well depicting three large ceramic urns each holding flowers. The border with alternating panels of an insect and a tight diaper.

Diameter: 7 3/4 inches Provenance: Private Pennsylvania Collection; with Gary Atkins.

(Ref: VM98154)

Price: $1,250.00

A Dutch Delft Large Dish with Tree Plant Pattern, The Porcelain Ax. Circa 1750.

The large underglaze blue dish is painted in the central well with a large central flowering tree by a wood fence with tulips growing below with an x-shaped border surround. The full border with leafy scrolls.

Diameter: 13 /12 inches

Marks: in underglaze blue V and an ax.

(Ref: Vm98163)

Price: $750.00 24

A Large Polychrome Dutch Delft Dish, Circa 1760 The dish depict a distinctive green coloured bamboo plant to the centre with ferns to the side and behind with three similar ferns on the border.

Diameter 13 inches (Ref: VM98167)

Price: $2,800.00

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A French Blue & White Tin-glazed Earthenware Footed Basin, Nevers, 18th Century, The under-glaze blue and white heart-shaped basin is supported on three bun feet. The exterior is painted with stylized floral scrolls terminating in sunflower-like flowerheads looking like masks. To each side is a large moulded handle in the form of a female head covered in underglaze blue locks falling to her shoulders.

The interior with a Chinoiserie garden scene with ducks and geese in with flowering plants growing out of rockwork and an tall urn and jardinière with plants. The interior sides of the basin with distinctive patterns.

Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches x 18 1/2 inches x 12 inches

(NY8054)

Price: $9,000.00

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