CIRCA 1755

Details

A Longton Hall cruciform leaf-moulded dish
Circa 1755
Moulded with four radiating large oak-leaves edged in green and yellow and with puce veins (some minor rim chips and slight wear to raised enamels)
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Bought from Winifred Williams, London, January 1980.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

For a pair of dishes of this rare form, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain (London, 1957), pl. 36B. A similar pair of dishes from the Collection of the Late Marcel Steele were sold by Sotheby's, 26 June 1962, lot 92.

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