
A Bow vase, four plates and a Chelsea dish, circa 1762-75 The vase of baluster shape with bifurcated double-scrolled handles, one side with an equestrian figure in front of an encampment, the other with a courting couple, within gilt quatrefoil panels reserved on a powder blue ground, 14.5cm high, a pair of shaped plates painted with 'fancy' birds, a variety of fantastic insects to the borders, with gilt dentil rims, 20cm diam, anchor and dagger marks in red, another moulded with three sprays of fruiting vine picked out in colours, the centre painted with cut fruit, smaller fruiting sprigs to the border and scattered leaves to the underside, the rim gilt, 21cm diam, anchor and dagger mark in red, and a soup plate painted in muted colours with autumnal fruit, three butterflies and further fruit to the border, 25.2cm diam, together with a Chelsea dish of lobed oval shape, painted with fruit, butterflies and smaller insects, brown line rim, 25.2cm wide, brown anchor mark (6) Footnotes: Provenance Raymond Yarbrough Collection, Albert Amor exhibition, 1999 (vase) Christie's, 9 July 2001, lot 16 (part) (pair of plates) Anton Gabszewicz Collection Literature Raymond Yarbrough, Bow Porcelain and the London Theatre (1996), p.113, figs.167-8 (vase) Anton Gabszewicz, 'Later Bow Porcelain: a suggested chronology', ECC Trans, Vol.27 (2016), pp.54-62, figs.13, 28, 32 and 34 The vase dates to circa 1762-65, the style of painting, which is influenced by Worcester, is more typically associated with Bow wares of the 1770s marked with an anchor and dagger. In contrast, bird painting on the later plates is markedly different to that seen on pieces produced during the first few years of the 1760s. The moulded plate is also a form not known among the mainstream Bow production of the 1760s and early 1770s. Figures in landscapes and sliced fruit are popular themes on later Bow, with fruit and butterfly painting in particular bearing close links to Chelsea with brown anchor marks of circa 1760. The soup plate therefore offers a most interesting comparison to the Chelsea dish in this lot. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
































