AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL PLATE EARLY TO MID-18TH CENTURY |

painted with a scene of a baker pulling loaves of bread from an oven, within concentric blue line circles.

Joseph T. Vizcarra Collection, Chicago, no. 84, bearing label
Jonathan Horne, New York, April, 1984

In good appearance. Typical glaze loss to rim edge. At four o'clock there is a hairline crack to the rim visible in the catalogue illustration. Fine glaze crazing cracks to both sides.
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The image is somewhat similar to the drawing entitled 'Backer (Baker) by Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674) from his ‘Straatwerken’ (‘Street Works’) series produced in the mid-17th century which may been the source for the present plate. The image was used as a source for Delft produced in the Netherlands, see a dish painted with a similar scene in a 'Petit Feu' palette illustrated by Robert Aronson, The Ivan B. Hart Collection, Monte Carlo, and other recent acquisitions, Amsterdam, 2013, pp. 100-101, no. 58.