First Period Worcester ‘Fancy Birds’ Dessert Plate c1775

Description

Heading : First Period Worcester ‘Fancy Birds’ Dessert Plate c1775
Date : c1775
Period : George III
Marks : Unmarked
Origin : Worcester. England
Colour : Polychrome – gilding to rim 
Pattern : ‘Fancy Birds’
Features : Broad scalloped rim with basket moulding to lip. edged with gilt border. Hand painted exotic birds in a leafy landscape to the well; smaller birds to the cavetto
Size : 20.7cm in diameter
Condition : Excellent; colours bright; no chips. cracks or flakes; small areas of kiln-spit inside the foot-rim on the base
Restoration : None
Weight : 264 grams

Reference : Two instances of plates from the same series are shown in Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (H R Marshall; 1954) – pp 216/17/18 – items 686 & 688

British Museum 1923.0315.51.CR