A rare Worcester plate

Provenance:
Mellor Cobham Collection

Literature:
See John Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, page 372, for a similar plate in the Museum of Worcester Porcelain 

A rare Worcester plate, painted in Japanese Kakiemon style with the Yellow Tiger pattern, after a Meissen original, the tiger entwined around a stem of bamboo, beside flowering branches and 'banded hedges', the indented border with a band of iron red flower heads and leaves, brown line rim, 8 3/4" diameter, circa 1765, no mark 

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