AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME FLOWER-BRICK
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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME FLOWER-BRICK

CIRCA 1750, PROBABLY LIVERPOOL

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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME FLOWER-BRICK
CIRCA 1750, PROBABLY LIVERPOOL
Painted in blue, yellow, ochre and manganese with stylised houses and turrets on wooded river islands with birds in flight above, the top pierced with twenty-one apertures and painted with foliage and star ornament, the shaped lower border with bracket feet
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
Provenance
F.H. Garner Collection.
John Philip Kassebaum; Sotheby's, London, 1 October 1991, lot 95.
Literature
Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D376.
F.H. Garner and M. Archer, English Delftware (London, 1972), pl. 87C.
Exhibited
London, The Victoria and Albert Museum, English Ceramic Circle, English Pottery and Porcelain, 5 May - 20 June 1948, pl. 5, no. 32.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

See F.H Garner, Delftware, London, 1948, pl. 63c for an almost identical example by the same hand, sold Sotheby's, London, 6 October 1964, part lot 105.

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