A London delftware charger c.1770

A London delftware charger c.1770, painted in blue with a maiden reclining on a rocky outcrop and attended by a young shepherd, beneath a tall sponged tree and before a ruined archway, small rim chips, 34cm.

The figures are copied from an engraving by Charles Albert von Lespiliez after François de Cuvilliés in Morceaux de Caprice. See Frank Britton, London Delftware, p.161 for a similar example and a copy of the print from which it derives.