An Irish delftware plate mid 18th century

An Irish delftware plate mid 18th century, decorated with bamboo and flowering peony beside an ornamental fence, the rim with narrow panels on a hatched diaper ground, painted numeral 17 mark to the base, some rim faults, 23.3cm.

Cf. Peter Francis, Irish Delftware, p.85 for similar examples copied directly from a Chinese porcelain original.