A London delftware octagonal plate, dated 1687


Possibly Pickleherring Pottery, painted in two tones of blue and outlined in black with a sitting figure of a Chinaman in a stylised rocky landscape, inscribed E.H 1687, within a border of ox-head-like motifs and sunbursts, 20.3cm wide
|Provenance:M.L.Clarke, Christies sale 5 April 1934, lot 79Dr. F.H. Garner, Sotheby's sale 2 March 1965, lot 152Joseph V.Vizcarra, Illinois, Sotheby's sale 13 April 1984, lot 384John Philip Kassebaum, Sotheby's sale 1 October 1991, lot 51Syd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 11 June 2010, lot 1169Literature:Illustrated by Lipski and Archer, Dated English Delftware (1984), fig.162 and by Leslie B. Grigsby, the Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.D107Exhibited:The Merchant's House, Marlborough, Wiltshire, 2010-2018A related octagonal plate also dated 1687 with initials E.E was sold by Bonhams 20 May 2015, lot 7 and is now in the Rosalie Sharp Collection, see 'China to Light Up a House' (2016), fig. E6. Another from the same set is in the Greg Collection in the Manchester City Art Gallery. A related border decoration was found on the Pickleherring site.