A Connoisseur's Eye - Michael Foster Ltd - The Personal Collection of the late Michael & Margaret Susands - 2nd July 2025
Lot 545
A RARE PAIR OF ARMORIAL DELFTWARE PLATES
Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £1071
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Description
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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