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A Worcester scalloped dessert plate, the centre painted by Jeffryes Hamett O'Neale with the Fable of the Laden Ass and the Horse, showing a donkey to the right encumbered by its heavy load, whilst a white hose trots neatly up from the left, within a wooded landscape with a river beyond and birds circling in the sky above, within a complex gilt scrolled and diaper lambrequin border, on a wet blue ground, with gilt dentil rim. Circa 1768-70. Diameter:
The Fable taken from Barlow, 'Aesop's Fables', London 1687.
Mark: fretted square in underglaze blue.
Provenence: Rayner Sale, Sothebys, lot 19. 17th March 1950. Sir John and Lady Heilbron collection. No. 58. Sir Seaton Wills collection Littlecote House. Sir Peter and Lady Cresswell collection. English Private Collection. Described by H.R.Marshall, 'Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period', p.48.
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