A ROYAL WORCESTER DARK-BLUE-GROUND KYLIX-SHAPED DISH Painted by Thomas Bott, date code for 1867

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A ROYAL WORCESTER DARK-BLUE-GROUND KYLIX-SHAPED DISH Painted by Thomas Bott, date code for 1867

Decorated in the Limoges enamel style with Mercury bearing Psyche to heaven, the maiden wearing billowing drapery, within a border of gilt anthemion divided by husks and a seeded and chased gilt line rim, (gilding worn on handles), signed T. Bott and dated on the reverse in black script, impressed and purple printed marks
11in. (28cm.) wide

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Thomas Bott (1829-1870) was the originator of the technique of Limoges enamel-style painting on porcelain. See Henry Sandon, Royal Worcester Porcelain, London 1973, pl. 47 for a dish of this shape of circa 1862. See also Geoffrey A. Godden, Victorian Porcelain, London 1961, pl. 52 for a similar dish of 1858

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