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A
fine early Worcester Cabbage Leaf moulded dish, formed as two Cos lettuce
leaves entwined, painted in delicate pastel
shades of green, yellow and puce with the 'Valentine' pattern, showing a
pair of the doves of Venus perched on the quiver and arrows of Cupid, to
their left a garlanded bread fruit tree and a pair of flaming hearts on
the altar of the Greek God of love Hyman, a love bird flies across above
the scene over a flowering oriental bush, all before the distant mountains
on Tenian Island.
Circa
1758-60
Diameter:
10 ins (25.5 cms) No Marks
The
pattern is a copy of a Chinese Export pattern devised in essence by
Lieutenant Piercey Brett for the marriage service of his serving Captain,
Commodore Anson.