First Period Worcester Porcelain Botanical Blue-Scale Kidney Shaped Dish

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The First Period Worcester porcelain botanical kidney-shaped dish has a blue-scale ground with four large shaped panels and four smaller … more The First Period Worcester porcelain botanical kidney-shaped dish has a blue-scale ground with four large shaped panels and four smaller vase-shaped panels on the rim, all finely painted with flowers. The vase-form panels each have a single flower while the larger panels are painted with an assortment of flowers, each has a distinctive long stemmed flower to each side. In the central well is another panel of kidney-shape similarly painted with flowers. Each panel is bordered with superb quality gilding of Rococo form. Mark: Underglaze blue fret mark Reference: Worcester porcelain, he Zorensky collection, Simon Spero & John Sandon, page 262, #310, for a kidney-shaped dish. less