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Lot 402

An exceptional Royal Worcester Four Seasons plate by Harry Davis, dated 1905

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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An exceptional Royal Worcester Four Seasons plate by Harry Davis, dated 1905

The green ground border reserving four panels, each painted with a landscape in the colours of a different Season, spring with an orchard in blossom, winter with a snow scene featuring the church in Stratford-on-Avon, summer signed H Davis, the panels framed with raised gold rococo scrollwork and alternating with smaller panels of flowers, 26.3cm diam, factory mark in puce

Footnotes

The way landscapes changed during the seasons fascinated the young Harry Davis who studied changing seasons in a series of watercolours of nearby Kempsey and the Malvern Hills. A pair of vases with contrasting seasons was sold by Bonhams 10 December 2008, lot 259. No other similar Harlequin plate is recorded.

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