A fine Worcester plate

A fine Worcester plate, after an early 18th century Japanese Imari original, painted with four carp swimming amidst waves, within a roundel, the border painted with flowering branches, within a blue ground rim with gilt leaf scrolls, the underside painted with iron red flower sprays, 9" diameter, circa 1770, no mark

Provenance; Barbara Leake Collection

Exhibited; Klaber and Klaber, Oriental Influences on European Porcelain Exhibition, 1978, figure 6a

The illustrations here show the Worcester plate beside the earlier Japanese porcelain prototype 

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