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Lot Essay
Cf. A.E. (Jimmy) Jones & Sir Lesley Joseph, Swansea Porcelain Shapes and Decoration (1988), p. 231, pl. 5 for a plate painted by Henry Morris with a similar border.
Details
A Swansea plate
painted with a spray of garden flowers and scattered sprigs, the border painted and gilt with a continuous band of ivy and berries, circa 1820 (some surface scratches, light rubbing to gilding and flat chip to rim) -- 23cm. diam.
See illustration
painted with a spray of garden flowers and scattered sprigs, the border painted and gilt with a continuous band of ivy and berries, circa 1820 (some surface scratches, light rubbing to gilding and flat chip to rim) -- 23cm. diam.
See illustration
Special notice
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