A RARE PAIR OF ARMORIAL DELFTWARE PLATES

A RARE PAIR OF ARMORIAL DELFTWARE PLATES

POSSIBLY DUBLIN, C.1760

boldly painted in the Fazackerly palette with flowering Oriental plants to the well and rim, each painted in blue with a mermaid crest, a rim crack to one, glaze chipping to the other (2)

23.3cm diameter

Catalogue Note

See Victoria & Albert Museum, Accession No. C.103-1965 for an identical example.

These plates were for a long time attributed to the Delftfield pottery in Glasgow, on the basis of the crest belonging to Murray of Polnaise. However, in an article in Volume 23 of the Transactions of the ECC, George Haggarty and James Gray discuss the lack of sherd evidence and suggest a new attribution of Delamain's Dublin factory. The crest relates to a number of English and Irish families, among them O'Byrne from Co. Wicklow.

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