A pair of pierced plates
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Two very rare creamware pierced plates, circa 1775
The borders moulded with beaded rims and one with additional purple feathering outside of a pierced geometric band, engine-turned flutes around the cavettos, the centres painted in sepia monochrome with portraits of the writers Dr Jonathan Swift and John Milton, within gilt oak leaf frames and surrounded by gold sprigs, 24.8cm and 25cm diam (one broken) (2)
Sold for £750 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance: The Dean Swift plate formerly in the collection of Mrs A.R.Lewis, sold by Sotheby's 22 December 1970, lot 101. These are from a series of cabinet plates probably painted in London with different literary subjects. A plate from this series painted with a portrait of the Duke of Marlborough was in the Donald Towner Collection and is illustrated by Towner, Creamware (1978) p.143, pl.72A.

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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