A rare Bow plate

Provenance:
Mellor Cobham Collection

Literature:
See Bow Porcelain, The Freeman Collection, figure 174, for a similar plate

A rare Bow plate, after a Worcester original, painted in coloured enamels with a roundel of winged insects, and with exotic birds in wooded landscapes, in gilt cartouches, and mirror shaped panels of butterflies and other insects, on a blue scale ground, gilt line rim, 8 1/2" diameter, circa 1770, red painted anchor and dagger mark, and pseudo Worcester underglaze blue fret mark 

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