A COPELAND 'JEWELLED' RETICULATED PINK-GROUND OCTAGONAL PLATE

CIRCA 1880, PRINTED GREEN MONOGRAM MARK, GILT 6, SIGNED C.F. HÜRTEN

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A COPELAND 'JEWELLED' RETICULATED PINK-GROUND OCTAGONAL PLATE
Circa 1880, printed green monogram mark, gilt 6, signed C.F. Hürten
Finely painted with a canary in an open birdcage beside a bouquet of flowers resting on a damask draped ledge, the cavetto with gilt key-pattern, the gilt and enamelled border embossed and pierced in the Japanese taste
9 1/8in. (23.2cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

See Robert Copeland, Spode Copeland 1765-1965, Exhibition Catalogue Det Danke Kunstindustriemuseum Kobenhavn, Stoke-en-Trent, 1966, p. 37, fig. 76 and 81 for an example of Hürten's flower painting on a centerpiece and for a plate of the same form. Here noted as 'the greatest flower painter of his time'.

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