A documentary delftware plate dated 1763, possibly Liverpool,...
A documentary delftware plate dated 1763, possibly Liverpool, the well inscribed in blue with ~Success to the Old Boy at Gasting Thomas Knowles 1763~, some rim chipping, 23cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Literature: The Connoisseur, April 1918, Mrs Hemming, ~Liverpool Delft~, pl. XIII. Mrs Hemming identifies the word on the plate as ~Casting~. See also, Lipski & Archer, Dated English Delftware, p.141, nos. 630A-C for Mrs Hemming~s plate and three others from the same set. The authors identify the place as probably being Garstang in Lancashire, ~The Old Boy~ presumably being a tavern of that name.
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A documentary delftware plate dated 1763, possibly Liverpool, the well inscribed in blue with ~Success to the Old Boy at Gasting Thomas Knowles 1763~, some rim chipping, 23cm. Provenance: a private collection from the West Country. Literature: The Connoisseur, April 1918, Mrs Hemming, ~Liverpool Delft~, pl. XIII. Mrs Hemming identifies the word on the plate as ~Casting~. See also, Lipski & Archer, Dated English Delftware, p.141, nos. 630A-C for Mrs Hemming~s plate and three others from the same set. The authors identify the place as probably being Garstang in Lancashire, ~The Old Boy~ presumably being a tavern of that name.
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