Lot Essay
As no comparable plates appear to be recorded in the literature, it would seem that these were a special commission from Worcester as replacements for or additions to the earlier Japanese service.
Details
A PAIR OF WORCESTER PLATES painted in the Imari palette after an Arita original, with a crane standing beside bamboo, prunus and flowering peony and with another crane in flight, 1765-1770 (2)
Literature
John Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, Woodbridge, 1993, Volume I, p. 200, Colour Plate 55