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Lot 101

A rare Worcester dessert plate
Circa 1765.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Worcester dessert plate

Circa 1765.
After Meissen, of deep form with a lobed rim, decorated in the Kakiemon palette with two songbirds perched upon chrysanthemums branches, their feathers, the shading of the petals and veins of the leaves carefully outlined in black, smaller scattered sprigs and blossom to the rim, 22.2cm diam (a tiny patches of rubbing to the enamel of one chrysanthemum flower)

Footnotes

The shape and pattern is a faithful copy of a Meissen original, see Rainer Rückert Meissener Porzellan (1966), p 85, fig 332. For similar Worcester plates see Henry Sandon, Worcester Porcelain (1969), pl 58 and H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain (1954), pl 22, fig 449. Another is in Rode Hall, see Julie McKeown (2006), p 59, pl 51. Albert Amor exhibited another in the Chinoiserie exhibition, April 1990, no 89. For a rectangular dish see Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain The Klepser Collection (1984), p 63, fig 61

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