This 8¾in (23cm) diameter Liverpool delft charger, dated 1738, is initialled MML for Michael and Mary Lightfoot, members of a Quaker family who lived in Chester County. It has passed by descent through the family to the vendor and will appear in Pook & Pook’s American and International Decorative auction on April 29 in Downingtown.
The charger is one of a small group of surviving delft ceramics made for Quaker families resident in the county. Another inscribed WEL 1738, probably made for William and Elizabeth Levis, sold in the same rooms in 2008 for a premium-inclusive $32,769.