It sold to a private collector from the Cotswolds, well above the £250-350 estimate at a price that beats the previous high, the £2200 paid at Christie’s South Kensington in May for a Burleigh plaque decorated with a tube-lined Persian leaf design.
Plaque sets £2900 record for Rhead
This 10in (25cm) Burleigh Ware pottery wall plate, by Charlotte Rhead established a new auction record for the industrial ceramicist when it sold for £2900 (plus 10 per cent buyer’s premium) at Andrew Hartley Fine Arts on October 8. Consigned to the Ilkley rooms via a local house clearance, the vibrantly-coloured plaque carried the pattern number 4350, a design previously known only from pattern books dated to c.1928-29.
