Worcester Porcelain Fan Panel Landscape Pattern Ex-Zorensky c1768-70

Description

Heading : Octagonal Porcelain Plate Fan Panel Landscape Pattern
Date : c1768-70
Period : George III
Marks : Faux Chinese mark – feathered W and ’96’ characters. Zorensky collection paper label
Origin : England
Colour : Blue and white. powder blue ground decorated in the fan-panelled landscape pattern
Size : 3.1 cm tall and 20.4 cm in diameter
Condition : Very good; there is a very small. 4mm flaked chip to the angle between two sides on the rim; one very small chip to the foot-rim; tiny pin-pricks to the glaze on the cavetto and lip
Restoration : None
Weight : 247 grams

Note : The Fan-Panelled Landscape pattern appears on pieces from Worcester. Bow and Caughley. and as well as the subtle variations from one manufacturer to another. there are also differences apparent on pieces nominally from the same source. This piece. for instance – with its marks being consistent with a Worcester derivation – has a rock in the foreground of the central. circular image – other examples may have a sampan instead