TWO Bow Powder Blue ROUND dINNER Plates

England, c1765

One with Pseudo Chinese Character Marks; One with Pseudo Meissen Mark

(Left - Pseudo Chinese Marks)

#5527

(Right - Pseudo Meissen Mark)

#5537

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Each round plate with a circular central well with a blue-outlined island riverscape depicting a poling boatman between an island

with formal buildings and a willow, and an island with pine trees, with rocks and low branches before, the sky with small birds; the even

powder blue ground with reserved blue-outlined panels: four fan-shaped border panels painted with unusually detailed panels of willow

trees on a rock, and figures in a boat before an island, each with small birds, alternating with four small round panels of lotus sprigs;

the verso with twigs beneath the rim;

one with a 6-character pseudo Chinese character mark; one with a pseudo Meissen mark of crossed swords

Note: For a similarly painted example, see John Sandon, Phillips Guide to English Porcelain, p.21;

also The Watney Collection, Part III (Phillips Auctioneers) Nov. 2000

Condition: Excellent; light kiln spit which is visible in images; each with a firing flaw verso

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#5527

Blue Dish, c1690-1720 (center). Bow, Worcester and Isleworth copied the Chinese export originals, blowing dry

cobalt through a bamboo straw onto an oiled surface, masking the reserves for painting. They are among the most striking

of all early English porcelains.

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