Two Tin-glazed Earthenware Chinoiserie-decorated Dishes

Description:

Two Tin-glazed Earthenware Chinoiserie-decorated Dishes, England, c. 1780, probably London, each blue decorated, one with a scroll border surrounding an Asian male seated beneath a willow tree, dia. 8 7/8; another with alternating wavy line and oval chain border surrounding a central landscape with two-story pavilion and large conifer bearing ball-like clusters, dia. 9 in.

Literature: Identical figural plate illustrated in Delftware, by Archer, illus. B. 269; similar pavilion plate illustrated in Dated English Delftware, by Archer, illus. 643.
Estimate $500-700

Figural plate: Glaze chips and abrasions surrounding rim; crazed throughout.
Pavilion plate: Scattered glaze chips and acrasions surrounding rim.


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