Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 23rd February 2016
Lot 252
A Worcester dessert plate c.1770
Estimate £100 - £150 | Hammer £160
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Description
A Worcester dessert plate c.1770, with scalloped edge, the well painted with insects in flight above an Oriental garden scene of trees and rockwork, reserved on a wet blue ground within simple gilt rims, script W mark, 18.8cm.
Provenance: Bonhams, The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain Part I, lot 172.
Illustrated by Simon Spero and John Sandon (1986), fig 318. It has been suggested that the central decoration was carried out by an independent decorator, since that and the lack of gilding are atypical of what the factory was producing at that time.