A Worcester yellow-ground shaped oval honeycomb-moulded dish

CIRCA 1765

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A Worcester yellow-ground shaped oval honeycomb-moulded dish
Circa 1765
The centre painted with a loose bouquet and a flower-spray, the border moulded in low relief with arched panels painted with trailing flowers reserved on a yellow honeycomb-moulded ground with brown and green vine-branch handles (slight rubbing to relief ornament)
11in. (30 cm.) wide

Sale room notice

The estimate for this lot should read 3000 - 5000, not 2000 - 3000 as stated in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

Cf. H. Rissik Marshall, op. cit. (1954), pl. 29, no. 647 and the examples sold in these Rooms on 17 December 1984, lot 180 and 15 February 1988, lot 180; see also the example painted with butterflies from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 29 May, 1990, lot 250.

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