A rare Worcester plate

Provenance:
Zorensky Collection

Sir Jeremy Lever Collection

 

Literature:
illustrated; Worcester Porcelain, The Zorensky Collection, figure 414b

See Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles China and Glass Painter, figure 59, for a variant of this rare pattern, with three pairs of birds to the border

A rare Worcester plate, painted in coloured enamels in the London atelier of James Giles with a pear, three plums and leaves, the indented border with three exotic birds in berried branches, gilt line rim, 9" diameter, circa 1765-70, no mark

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