BLUE & WHITE TIN-GLAZED EARTHENWARE DEEP PLATE (Delft-Faience type)

Greek War of Independence era

BLUE & WHITE TIN-GLAZED EARTHENWARE DEEP PLATE
(Delft-Faience type, Greek, circa first ½ 1800's ...about the time that Lord Byron became a hero to the Greeks when he died fighting in the Greek War of Independence (1821-32). After centuries of Ottoman rule, European influence and styles were again reaching Greece)

The Plate : well-painted under glaze with center flower vase, various floral and other decorations; condition excellent for type & age, with overall crackelure; back of foot rim pierced for hanging

Diameter : 8-1/2” (21.7 cm)

Signed by maker, under glaze blue, verso : EKVPOE / r . N

Provenance : collected in course of a long international career by a French woman, married in the 1920's to a prominent American architect

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