English and European Ceramics and Glass - 6th March 2012

Lot 502

An English porcelain blue scale scallop edged plate c.1770-80

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £180

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Description

An English porcelain blue scale scallop edged plate c.1770-80, perhaps Bow, painted in the manner of the Giles atelier with large birds and scattered insects in panels on a scaled ground, 20.5cm. Cf. Gerald Coke, In Search of James Giles, p.216 for a Bow plate in the V&A decorated with this version of the Lady Mary Wortley Montagu pattern.