Of silver-shape, the sharply moulded rim picked out in brown, with two shell handles painted in puce and gold, painted with a large variegated tulip, its windblown petals tipped in burnt orange, flanked by two smaller purple floral sprigs, 25.3cm wide, brown anchor mark
Footnotes
Provenance
With Jupiter Antiques, 2007
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.260, fig.b
Exhibited
London Ceramic Circle Exhibition, 2014
It is interesting to compare the style of painting with 'Hans Sloane' plates produced at Chelsea just a few years prior. The tulip is painted in stronger colours and there is seemingly less of an attempt to stay true to a botanical study.