SOLD – Worcester Yellow Tiger Plate c 1770- Ex Zorensky and Lever

Description

A Worcetser plate painted in a kakiemon palette with the so called ‘Yellow Tiger’ pattern derived from a Meissen pattern of some 25 years or more earlier. There is a graze to the rim which is a factory fault and glazed over. It last sold for £1434 at Bonhams in the Zorensky sale and £1320 in the Lever sale.

References

Zorensky Collection 1750-1790 page 241 for this very plate and also the Sir Jeremy Lever collection page 66 ( lot 145)

See Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain – John Sandon p372

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/10816/lot/163/

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15268/lot/247/