TWO DELFT BOWLS

MID 18TH CENTURY

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TWO DELFT BOWLS
Mid 18th century
The first a Dutch blue and white fluted example, with steep sides, painted in two registers with cartouches enclosing flowers, the interior with a similar flower, 8¾in. (22.3cm.) diam., 4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) deep; the second English, probably Bristol, circa 1750, painted in blue and enriched in yellow, green and iron-red with interlocking rectangles issuing clusters of grapes, trailing flowering vines, scrolls and a squirrel perched on the scrolls, the interior with pendant stylized flowers, the bottom of the basin with a stylized flower or insect, 10¼in. (26cm.) diam., 5in. (12.7cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Dr. Jan Boyazoglu, no. 078 (the Dutch blue and white bowl)

Literature

Dr. Jan Boyazoglu & Louis de Neuville, Les Faiences de Delft, p. 37, plate 28 (the Dutch blue and white bowl)

Lot Essay

See Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, London, 1982, figs. 8.7 and 14.23 for a slightly smaller bowl of variant profile and a charger, both similarly decorated to the present example.

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