A DELFTWARE CHARGER

A DELFTWARE CHARGER

ENGLISH, LATE 17TH CENTURY

painted with three large orange fruit, probably pomegranates, on green leaves interspersed with buds, inside a yellow band and blue dash border, on a buff body

34cm diameter

Provenance

The Ida Clarke Collection, inventory number 5.

Catalogue Note

See Bonhams, Fine Glass and British Ceramics, 15 December 2020, lot 34 for a very similar charger previously offered by Christie's New York, 'Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection', 24 January 2011, lot 12.

Another similar charger is discussed by Michael Archer, Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum (2013), p.55, A.82.