A BOW QUATREFOIL SPOON-TRAY AND A BOW KAKIEMON COFFEE-CUP

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A BOW QUATREFOIL SPOON-TRAY AND A BOW KAKIEMON COFFEE-CUP
Circa 1756

The first painted by James Welsh with a bouquet, flower-spray, caterpillar and an insect beneath an iron-red scrolling foliage and gilt flowerhead border (rim repair, two small chips and hairline cracks to rim), iron-red E mark, 5 7/8in. (15cm.) wide; the coffee-cup painted with the 'Quail' pattern (chip to footrim), iron-red E mark, 2 1/4in. (5.8cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anon., sale Phillips, 9 September 1992, lot 354 (for the first)

Literature

Tony Stevenson, 'James Welsh A Bow porcelain painter revealed', Apollo, January 1993, p. 16, pls. 14 & 15

Lot Essay

See also Tony Stevenson, 'Some Bow Inkstands', E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 14, Pt. 3, pp. 274-282 where the work of James Welsh is discussed. The celebrated documentary inkpot signed Ja. Welsh was sold in these Rooms on 9 October 1989, lot 134 and is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum (C.2-1990)

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