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Lot 330

8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,160 inc. premium

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A Flight plate from The Hope Service

circa 1792
painted en grisaille by John Pennington with a figure of Hope standing on a rocky seashore, her left arm raised and an anchor at her feet, looking out to the stormy sea and a ship in full sail, within a classical border in underglaze blue and gold, 24.4cm, crescent mark, crown and 'Flight' in underglaze blue (a few minute patches of wear to the gilding on the inner border)

Footnotes

This plate forms part of the well-known service ordered by the Duke of Clarence from Flights in 1789, at a total cost of £700. See John Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, p 114

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