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Lot 188*

A Worcester armorial plate, circa 1767-70

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester armorial plate, circa 1767-70

Decorated in the workshop of James Giles, the centre with the arms of Gavin impaling Hearsey, the shield within a distinctive cartouche edged with pink scales and with red and black leaf mantling, surmounted by the crest of a galleon, surrounded by scattered floral sprigs and sprays in dark purple, the shaped rim edged in gold, 22.5cm diam

Footnotes

The arms are of David Gavin, a wealthy tailor, and those of his first wife Christina Hearsey who died in 1767. Gavin remarried in 1770 and so this set presumably pre-dates his second marriage, and probably also Christina's death. See Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles China and Glass Painter (2005), no.78, where another plate from the set is illustrated. A similar plate from this service from the Zorensky Collection was sold by Bonhams on 16 March 2004, lot 239 and is illustrated by Spero and Sandon, Worcester Porcelain (1996), p.346, no.438. Smaller plates with lobed borders from this service are illustrated by Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles (1983), pl.28(a) and H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (1954), pl.36, no.781.

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