Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 20 Feb 2018
A Bristol delftware plate c.1720
A Bristol delftware plate c.1720, painted in blue with a smouldering bottle kiln in a landscape, 22.5cm.
Cf. Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, p 97 for a similar plate.
The reverse with an old paper label describing the plate's purchase from the collection of H C Maddicks of Bristol in 1936.