A London delftware tulip charger, circa 1680
Painted with a formal spray of tulip and carnation flowers in blue, manganese, yellow and red-brown, among slender leaves in turquoise-green growing from a single bulb, the blue dash rim edged with a yellow band, lead glazed back, 32cm diam
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Provenance:Edward & Millicent Carew-Shaw, Christie's sale 4 March 2007, lot 69This composition is unusual in placing two tulip flowers at the top of the spray instead of a single central tulip. A charger with this same arrangement is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Michael Archer, Delftware (1997), fig. A.27.