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Lot 378

A Worcester plate, circa 1770

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester plate, circa 1770

Decorated in the Japanese Imari style with four carp swimming among stylised waves, the border richly painted and gilt with petal-shaped panels of flowering oriental shrubs, the blue ground gilt with further scrolling ornament, the underside of the rim painted with three sprays of iron-red flowers, 22.7cm diam

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Provenance
T Grant Dixon Collection

A very similar example was in the Barbara Leake Collection sold by Bonhams, 12 March 2008, lot 233. See Klaber and Klaber, Oriental Influences on European Porcelain, April 1978, fig. 6a together with a Japanese prototype from the Frank Lloyd Collection. Another Worcester plate with an outside-decorated version of the same pattern was in the Zorensky Collection, part 3, lot 222

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