CIRCA 1770, IRON-RED ANCHOR AND DAGGER MARKS

Details

Six Bow plates
Circa 1770, iron-red anchor and dagger marks
Painted with exotic birds perched on branches and strutting among foliage and grasses within borders of scattered butterlies and insects and shaped gilt dentil rims (four chipped, some slight wear to enamels)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam. (6)

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Lot Essay

It has long been suggested that Bow porcelain bearing the anchor and dagger mark, usually in iron-red, is the work of an independent decorator. Hugh Tait has recently suggested ('Nicholas Sprimont at Chelsea, His Apprentice William Brown, and the "Anchor-and-Dagger" Mark', Ars Ceramica 1998) the intriguing possibility that these pieces could be the work of William Brown, an independent decorator of Cold Bath Fields, who later took on the Bow factory from 1774 until April 1776.

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