
Anna Burnside
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The Hon. Nellie Ionides Collection
Thence by descent
The 'Fortune Teller' is decorated after a print by Robert Hancock after Boitard. Another example is illustrated by Cyril Cook, The Life and Work of Robert Hancock (1948), Item 38 and Bernard Watney and R J Charleston, 'Petitions for Patents', ECC Trans, Vol.6, Pt.2 (1966), pl.90. The 'Shepherd Lovers' is also after Boitard. See Cook (1948), Item 99 and Egan Mew, Battersea Enamels (1926), fig.29 for the same subject printed on a Battersea enamel snuff box. The 'Shepherd Lovers' plaque is illustrated by Therle and Bernard Hughes, English Painted Enamels (1951), pl.I (left).