A Rare Bow Porcelain Blue Scale Plate c1770

Description

Heading :  A Bow Porcelain Blue Scale Plate
Date : c1770
Period : George III
Marks : A Blue square seal mark
Origin : Stratford Road. Bow. Essex
Colour :Polychrome
Pattern : Worcester style scale blue with coloured birds set within the  mirror and vases

Features: Small square seal mark on the underside. Glaze pooling in the footstring
Condition : Very good. a faint hairline crack on the underside
Restoration None
Dimensions : 21.2cm diameter
Weight :  352 grams

This is only the second example of Bow porcelain that we have seen bearing a Worcester type square seal mark. Both are blue scale type plates our first had the additional red dagger and cross mark. This may suggest that they were made as replacements for a Worcester service. however. the decoration is more naive than Worcester and all the more charming for it.