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Lot 245

An important Bow plate, circa 1759-62

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An important Bow plate, circa 1759-62

Of octagonal shape, painted in blue with two Chinese figures standing side-by-side, one carrying a parasol and pointing to a large vase standing on a plinth beside them, the base of the vase cryptically inscribed BOW, the quatrelobed panel reserved on a powder blue ground and surrounded by small panels of sprigs and precious objects, 21.7cm diam, (two small rim chips, fine scratch)

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Provenance
Bonhams sale, 2 June 2004, lot 230

It is believed that twelve plates were made with this delightfully humorous decoration. Eleven were sold in the Caldwell sale at Sotheby's, 7 October 1969, lots 52-57. See Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain (1981), colour pl.M and p.167.

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