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A Worcester scalloped dessert plate, the centre painted by Jeffryes Hamett O'Neale with the Fable of 'The Stork and the Wolf', showing the neatly tight winged stork with its beak inside the mouth of the wolf, they stand beside a slow flowing river beside 'Van Dyck' brown rocks and river bank vegetation, to one side lie animal's bones, a wooded landscape stretches off to one side with tall trees providing a coulis in the foreground, characteristic poplars and pines in the distance, with hills in the background and birds in flight overhead, within a simple gold scrolled border of 'Heathcote' type. Circa 1768-70. Diameter: Mark: fretted square in underglaze blue to the underside.
Taken from Barlow, 'Aesop's Fables', London 1687 Fable LXXXII.
Provenance: Heathcote Sale, Sothebys, Lot 79, 21st February 1947. Sir John and Lady Heilbron Collection London. Sir Peter and Lady Cresswell collection. English Private Collection. Described by H.R.Marshall, 'Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period', p.46.
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