Lot 217
  • 217

A Dutch Delft polychrome cartouche-shaped plaque, mid-18th century

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description

  • Pottery - Delft
  • 33.7cm. x 26.9cm., 13 1/4 in. x 10 1//2 in.
painted with an Oriental woman holding a fan in a fenced garden, flanked by a flowering prunus branch with a perching bird, and a large pagoda building housing two figures, the moulded frame with flowering scrolls on an iron-red ground, pierced twice for hanging, letter P mark,

Condition

In good appearance. There is some faint glaze crazing cracks to the left and center of the scene. Some typical glaze nibbling to the under edge of the border. The plaque is slightly bowed.
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