拍品 55
55
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A WORCESTER PLATE FROM THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER SERVICE, the centre luxuriantly painted with two peaches, two plums, cherries and blackcurrants and with a ladybird and an insect, the border with five coloured butterflies within blue and gilt scroll cartouches divided by sprays of fruit within a shaped gilt feuilles-de-choux and turquoise rim, the underside with three sprays of fruit (minute rubbing to one strawberry and leaf, very slight glaze blemish to rim), gold crescent mark, circa 1775

细节
A WORCESTER PLATE FROM THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER SERVICE, the centre luxuriantly painted with two peaches, two plums, cherries and blackcurrants and with a ladybird and an insect, the border with five coloured butterflies within blue and gilt scroll cartouches divided by sprays of fruit within a shaped gilt feuilles-de-choux and turquoise rim, the underside with three sprays of fruit (minute rubbing to one strawberry and leaf, very slight glaze blemish to rim), gold crescent mark, circa 1775
22.5cm. diam.

拍品专文

Other plates from this service were sold in these Rooms on 19 November 1979, lot 192 (the late Thomas Ernest Inman Collection) and on 12 October 1987, lot 174 and a sauce-tureen and cover in our South Kensington Rooms on 15 April 1993, lot 223. Seventy pieces from the service, the collection of H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge, were sold in these Rooms on 8 June 1904, lots 32 - 56. For a detailed discussion on the attribution of this decoration see Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, p. 68, no. 64, and ibid., col. pl. 19 for a tureen-stand in the Klepser Collection