
Anna Burnside
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Provenance
Simon Spero exhibition, 2008, no.46
Pauline and David Tate Collection
Plates were among the first shapes made at Worcester, although the production of these was short-lived. Significantly, plates do not feature in the price list of Worcester's London Warehouse, compiled circa 1754, and they were not reintroduced until a few years later. Manufacturing difficulties were probably to blame as many early Worcester plates exhibit firing faults. The three recorded examples of the 'Zig-Zag Fence Bird' pattern are among the most successful of these early plates, however. One is illustrated by Branyan, French and Sandon (1989), pattern I.C.6, while another was in the Zorensky Collection, sold by Bonhams on 6 March 2004, lot 288.