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A LONDON DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE PUNCH BOWL AND A DELFTWARE BLUE AND WHITE GUGLET AND BASIN CIRCA 1750-70

the bowl finely painted on the interior with lovers in a garden beside a large urn on a stone pedestal, the exterior with a continuous landscape with figures including a lady and gentleman walking, a shepherd and shepherdess and a girl milking a cow; the guglet and basin, probably Dublin, each painted with the 'Chinese Flower Bowl' pattern, both the latter with painter's numeral 6. Punch bowl repaired, basin cracked, guglet with a restored rim chip. 3 pieces.

CATALOGUE NOTE

The shepherd and shepherdess figures on the exterior of the punch bowl are more usually found as the central subject of plates, for an illustration of which, together with the source print, see John C. Austin, British Delft at Williamsburg, p. 166, no. 287. A punch bowl of almost identical interior and exterior decoration, but with a different border pattern was sold at Sotheby's, London, October 30, 1973, lot 32.

For a similar guglet see Peter Francis, Irish Delftware an Illustrated History, p. 140, fig. 181 and for the pattern and a discussion of painter's numerals see pp. 68-75 and p. 111.