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Painted with a pair of courting doves before a beehive or skep resting on a table, surrounded by bees in flight, flanked by trailing branches of fruiting vine with leaves in two shades of green, gilt tendrils and a profusion of purple fruit, further meandering branches to the interior, 12.3cm diam, painter's numeral 10 inside footrim
Footnotes
Provenance
With Frank Tilley, London, 1955;
Gladys L Robertson Collection, Galt, Ontario;
Canadian Private Collection, Christie's New York, 21 November 2008, lot 267;
With Brian Haughton Gallery, 2010
Literature
Brian Haughton Gallery, A Passion for Porcelain, 2009, p.38, no.28
Exhibited
ECC Exhibition, 2009
Doves, bees and fruiting vine are all symbols of love, marriage and fertility, and Brian Haughton suggests in his 2009 catalogue that this bowl may have formed part of a service commemorating a marriage. A similar bowl is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. no.C.565-1922).