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A scalloped Worcester Dessert plate, painted by Jeffreys Hamett O'Neale with the Fable of 'The Fox and the Hedgehog', showing the Fox in the river with a swarm of flies around his head and trying to scamper up the very steep river bank, on which stands the Hedgehog offering help and distraction, beside a gnarled oak tree, before a distant river landscape which extends and meanders across to the right, through a wooded copse of tall leafy trees to the distant mountains beyond, a single flock of birds flies overhead, within a complex gold scrolled and diaper lambrequin border of 'Kitley' type, on a wet blue ground, with gilt dentil rim. Circa 1768-70. Diameter: Mark: fretted square in underglaze blue to the underside.
The Fable taken from Croxall, 'Aesop's Fables', London 1722, CXCV.
Provenance: Colonel Reginald Bastard of Kitley House, Devon. Christies, Lot 9, 21st April 1953. Sir Seaton Wills Collection Littlecote House. Sir Peter and Lady Cresswell Collection. Private English Collection. Illustrated H.R.Marshall, 'Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period', pl.13. No. 9. and described by him on p.51.
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