A PAIR OF 'LEAPING DOG' PLATES painted in a vivid blue enamel and grisaille with a leaping pekinese below a border with four shaped panels enclosing a flying stork and parrot on a stand, two cooing doves and another parrot on a perch clutching a cherry spray, all reserved on a sepia cell-ground (small chips underneath the rim), circa 1735

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A PAIR OF 'LEAPING DOG' PLATES painted in a vivid blue enamel and grisaille with a leaping pekinese below a border with four shaped panels enclosing a flying stork and parrot on a stand, two cooing doves and another parrot on a perch clutching a cherry spray, all reserved on a sepia cell-ground (small chips underneath the rim), circa 1735
22.2cm. diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Howard and Ayers, op. cit., p. 296, for a leaping dog plate of similar design possibly after the Dutch designer Cornelis Pronk; a plate of this pattern from the Franks Collection is in the British Museum.

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