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A scalloped Worcester Dessert plate, painted by Jeffreys Hamett O'Neale, with the Fable of 'The Fox and the Wolf', showing the Fox within the river, before a cascade andtrying in desperation to climb the rockyriver bank, on which stands the Wolf surveying the scene, before a distant river landscape winding back from a gnarled oak tree on the left of the scene through to the distant hills in the background, with a flock of birds in flight overhead, within a complex gold scrolled diaper and 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 Francis Barlow, 'Aesop's Fables', Fable XLII.
Provenance: Colonel Reginald Bastard of Kitley House, Devon. Christies, Lot 8, 21st April 1953. Sir Seaton Wills Collection Littlecote House. Private English Collection. Illustrated H.R.Marshall, 'Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period', pl. 13. No. 8. and described by him on p.51.
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