Lot 229
229
AN OKEOVER PLATE
AN OKEOVER PLATE

CIRCA 1743

Details
AN OKEOVER PLATE
Circa 1743
Lavishly enamelled with the arms of Okeover quarterly impaling Nichol in the center set against elaborate architectural mantling in shaded gilt with scrollwork behind and horses and pennants rising from water below, the rim with cartouches of the blue cypher monogram MLO and the dragon and coronet Okeover crest, all on a field of flowers
9in. (22.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

From the famous service made for Leake Okeover (1702-65) and Mary Nichol Okeover for which the original invoice survives, dated 1743 and reading "..from ye Jerusalem Coffee House, Change Alley, a consignment of fifty plates and four large dishes with your arms", as does the original drawing, inscribed "...a pattern for China plate. Pattern to be returned." See D.S. Howard, op. cit., p. 398.