Set of Four Blue and White Delft Plates Hand Painted Mid 18th Century C-1760
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Set of Four Blue and White Delft Plates Hand Painted Mid 18th Century C-1760

$1,400.00

These four blue and white English Delft plates were hand-painted in Bristol circa 1760. Inspired by Chinese blue and white porcelain, they combine a pale bluish tin-glazed ground with deep cobalt decoration.

The center of each plate is painted with a chinoiserie garden scene of flowering plants, including peony, plum blossom, and chrysanthemum. Related floral sprays are arranged around the border, extending the decoration from the center to the rim.
The rich cobalt blue stands out beautifully against the softly toned glaze, giving the hand-painted decoration exceptional clarity.
For a closely related Bristol Delft dish, see Frank Britton, English Delftware in the Bristol Collection, page 190, image 12.24.
Dimensions: Each 9″ diameter x .75″ high
Condition: Excellent, with slight edge frits invisibly restored.
Date: Circa 1760
Origin: Bristol, England

 

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Background of English Delft: The art of making Delft began in England in the Mid-1500s. An English delftware jug has been found in East Malling, Kent, with a silver mount hallmarked 1550, which is presumed to be the earliest English delftware manufacture date. John Stow’s Survey of London (1598) records the arrival in 1567 of two Antwerp potters, Jasper Andries and Jacob Jansen, in Norwich, where they made “Gally Paving Tiles and vessels for Apothecaries and others…” The production of Delft reached its high point in the mid-1700s. After that, creamware pottery began to replace Delft as the useful pottery of the English middle class. See Caiger-Smith, Alan, Tin-glazed Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware, Faber and Faber, 1973, ISBN 0-571-09349-3.

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