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A scalloped Worcester Dessert plate, the centre painted by Jeffryes Hamett O'Neale with the Fable of 'The Fox and the Stork', the Fox lapping up food from a large circular platter with the Stork looking on unable to eat, they stand beside a cascade with 'Van Dyke' brown rocks and vegetation in the foreground, beneath a palm tree, before a river landscape dotted with poplars and other tall trees, stretching back to distant hills, with birds in flight overhead, within a simple gold scrolled border of 'Heathcote' type, on a wet blue ground, with gilt dentil rim. Circa 1768-70. Diameter: Mark: fretted square mark in underglaze blue to the underside.
This the first part of the Fable is probably after Jean de la Fontaine, 'Fables Choisies', 1755-59 as this book shows both parts of the Fable. Barlow, Fable LXXXV and Croxall, Fable No.12 only show the second part when the stork eats from a pitcher.
Provenance: Heathcote Sale, Sothebys, lot 75, 21st February 1947. Douglas Sidders Collection. Sir Peter and Lady Cresswell Collection. Private English Collection.
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