A rare Bow sweetmeat dish

A rare Bow shell shaped sweetmeat dish, the bowl painted in coloured enamels with a spray of flowers and leaves, within a pale pink border, on pierced triangular base applied with coloured sea shells and coral, and with a bird emerging from beneath, 4 1/2" high, circa 1758-60, no mark

Provenace; H D Salmon Collection
                   English Private Collection

see Adams and Redstone, Bow Porcelain, figure 54, for a similar example 

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