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An extremely rare pair of Bow canted rectangular botanical dishes
An extremely rare pair of Bow canted rectangular botanical dishes, each very unusually painted in coloured enamels with a spray of Spanish Jasmine, scattered flowers and winged insects, 9 3/8" long, circa 1756-58, no marks
Provenance: Sotheby's, Very Fine English Porcelain, 7th May 1968, lot 6
See Sally Kevill-Davies, Sir Hans Sloane's Plants on Chelsea Porcelain, pages 140 and 141, for the source engraving by G W Knorr, and a Chelsea leaf shapes dish painted with Italian Yellow Jasmine
We do not record a comparable pair of Bow dishes in our archive
See also Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, The Nelson A Rockefeller Collwction, 11th April 1980, lot 65, for a pair of Bow octagonal botanical plates
