Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 9th September 2014
Lot 163
A rare English stone china octagonal plate c.1804
Estimate £400 - £600
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Description
A rare English stone china octagonal plate c.1804, probably Mason's, copying a Chinese porcelain design in the famille rose palette, painted with a boy on the back of a water buffalo, reaching across a precipice with two geese on the other side, within a red and yellow foliate border, 22.8cm.
Cf. Godden's Guide to Mason's China and the Ironstone Wares, pl.129 for an identical example.