A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
A Rare Pair of Bow Botanical Octagonal Plates, Circa 1760
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October 18, 02:29 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Rare Pair of Bow Botanical Octagonal Plates, Circa 1760
painted in 'Hans Sloane' style with a large flower specimen to the center, with a caterpillars, moths and smaller insects and flower sprigs around the edge, brown-edged rims.
Width 7 3/4 in.
19.7 cm
Robyn Robb, London, bearing labels
A further pair was in the Collection of Nelson A. Rockefeller, sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. New York, April 11, 1980, lot 65, illustrated in Anton Gabszewicz, Made At New Canton, Bow Porcelain from the Collection of the London Borough of Newham, London 2000, p. 74, no. 61. The author notes the liberties that the Bow factory took with copying flower specimens which often resulted in plates that were not botanically correct. Two further Bow Botanical plates of this type from the Morrison Collection were sold at Sotheby's London, November 10, 2015, lot 141.