23rd Mar, 2019 10:00 GMT/BST

Spring Fine Art Sale (Part II)

 
Lot 506
 

506

An Early Worcester Porcelain Plate, circa 1752, painted in famille verte style with a bird...

An Early Worcester Porcelain Plate, circa 1752, painted in famille verte style with a bird perched in a flowering prunus tree flanked by bamboo within a green diaper border with three panels with an insect and willow in a fenced garden, 23cm diameter See illustration

For a similar example see Spero (Simon) Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain, fig.75. Excavations on the Warmstry House site have shown that plates of this shape were amongst the first productions of the Worcester factory
Not Sold

 

45mm firing fault to the underside, not visible from the front. Some mis-firing to green enamel border. Very minor wear to enamels.

 


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Auction: Spring Fine Art Sale (Part II), 23rd Mar, 2019

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