An early Bow oblong dish

An early Bow oblong dish, c.1753, of elongated octagonal form, painted with a long-tailed bird in flight above flowering peony branches and holey blue rockwork, the cavetto with a gilt scroll border, the rim with a panelled green trellis border, 27.4cm.

Provenance: the David Stopher Collection.

Cf. Bow Porcelain, The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman, p.34, pl.24 for a similar pair.