AN IRISH DELFTWARE TAZZA

AN IRISH DELFTWARE TAZZA

DUBLIN, C.1760

painted in the chinoiserie style with an exotic bird and flowering foliage inside an elaborate Worcester porcelain style border, on a short foot, blue painted 'NE' to the base

27.8cm diameter

Provenance

The Ida Clarke Collection, inventory number 47.

Catalogue Note

Please see Peter Francis, Irish Delftware - an illustrated history, pp. 71-74 for a discussion on the 'NE' and other monograms found on Dublin delftware.

Two paper labels attached to the underside of the tazza suggest that the comport was made in the Henry Delamain Factory.