A rare Bristol oval centre dish

A rare Bristol oval centre dish, after a Worcester original, boldly painted in coloured enamels with three exotic birds and trees, and scattered flowers, the pierced trellis border moulded with four shells, picked out in puce and gilt, gilt line rim, 13 1/2" wide, circa 1775, no mark

Provenance; Peter Stephens Collection
                     Bonhams London, 7th June 2006, lot 211

Exhibited; Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition, 1970, number 118

See F S Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, figure 67, for a Plymouth flower painted centre dish of this form 

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