Lot 225
  • 225

A Dutch Delft polychrome plaque, mid-18th century

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pottery - Delft
  • 33.3cm., 13 1/8 in. wide
of moulded cartouche form, vibrantly painted with a Chinoiserie landscape of three figures in a fenced garden, with two further figures on a distant island, the raised frame marbled in green reserving leaves and flower heads, pierced for hanging,

Provenance

With Joseph M. Morpurgo, Amsterdam;
Acquired from the above in 1979.

Literature

J.F. Heijbroek & A.Th.P van Griensven, Kunst, kennis en kwaliteit, Zwolle, 2007, p. 124, illustrated in a photograph from 1964, when with Joseph M. Morpurgo.

Condition

In good appearance, and generally good condition. There are glaze chips to the moulded rim visible in the catalogue illustration. The reverse edge of the plaque with typical glaze loss long edge.
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