Description:
English delft circular dish with blue, purple, green, red, and yellow decoration. Given the number of surviving examples, this must have been a popular design that modern collectors now call the "fried egg" pattern for the shape of the stylized blue and yellow rockwork. The well is decorated with a stylized chinoiserie garden scene of a large red flower outlined in blue growing from behind a blue rock with a yellow center; tall arching red, green, and blue floral spray ending in stylized red willow branches; and other foliage and red lines in the foreground. The rim is encircled with four matching floral groups centering on a half-sunflower face, flanked by thickly-painted blue sagraffito or scratched fans or leaves and two flower sprays in red, purple, yellow, and green. The London attribution is based on the brilliant colors, thick glaze, sgraffito decoration, and the fragments with this pattern excavated by F. H. Garner from the Lambeth High Street site (William Griffith) in London.
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