A Group of English Porcelain Leaf-form Dishes, Circa 1755-65
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October 18, 02:47 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Group of English Porcelain Leaf-form Dishes, Circa 1755-65
comprising:
A Longton Hall 'Strawberry' Large Dish, Circa 1755
the border molded in high relief with strawberries, leaves and stalks picked out in red, tones of green and puce, the interior painted in with a flower spray of roses and a tulip, and scattered flower sprigs.
A Rare Longton Hall Leaf-Molded Plate, Circa 1755
painted, in 'Trembly Rose'-painter style. in shades of rose, purple, iron-red, blue, yellow and green with a bouquet and four sprigs of flowers and a tiny foliate sprig within an octofoil rim molded at the edge with a rose stem issuing rose-ribbed green leaves.
A Worcester Leaf-Shaped Dish, Circa 1765
modeled in the form of two overlapping vine leaves, affixed with a brown branch handle issuing curling tendrils, painted with a spray of flowers and scattered sprigs, the edges of the leaves coloured in pale-yellow and green.
A Rare Bow Leaf-Shaped Pickle Dish, Circa 1760
of trifid shape, finely fluted, painted with puce veins and edged in grass-green. 4 pieces.
Diameter of Longton Hall 'Strawberry' Dish 12 in.
30.4 cm
Longton Hall strawberry dish:
Phillips London, June 5, 1996, lot 593
Longton Hall Leaf-molded plate:
Chapman Collection, Philadelphia;
Sotheby's New York, December 9, 1986, lot 197;
Miss Millie Manheim and D. M. and P. Manheim Antiques Corporation Collection;
Sotheby's New York, October 15, 1996, lot 138
Worcester Leaf-shaped dish:
Barbara Leake Collection, England, bearing label;
Bonhams London, March 12, 2008, lot 187
Bow Leaf-shaped pickled dish:
Miss Millie Manheim and D. M. and P. Manheim Antiques Corporation Collection, bearing label;
Sotheby's New York, October 15, 1996, lot 123
Similar Longton Hall leaf-molded plates are illustrated in J. L. Dixon, English Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, London 1952, pl. 62(b); and Donald C. Peirce, English Ceramics, The Frances and Emory Cocke Collection, Atlanta 1988, p. 154, no. 148, the latter example sold, Sotheby's London, June 29, 1965, lot 136. Another was sold at Christie's New York, October 14, 1995, lot 221.
A pair of Bow pickle dishes of this form was in the collection of Countess Elsie Lee Gozzi, sold, Christie's East, New York, October 11, 1995, lot 17.
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