Lot Essay
Variously known as 'Bengal Tiger', 'Kylin' and 'Dragon and Compartments', this pattern was taken directly from an early 18th century Chinese famille verte design of the Kangxi period.
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CIRCA 1770
Details
FOUR WORCESTER 'BENGAL TIGER' DESSERT PLATES
CIRCA 1770
Painted in the famille verte palette with four radiating panels, alternately enclosing a stylized dragon or vases in a still life on a table, the border with cell pattern and half flower-heads and gilt scalloped rims
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diameter (4)
CIRCA 1770
Painted in the famille verte palette with four radiating panels, alternately enclosing a stylized dragon or vases in a still life on a table, the border with cell pattern and half flower-heads and gilt scalloped rims
8¼ in. (21 cm.) diameter (4)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 16 September 1978, lots 61 and 62