Of gentle lobed form, painted in Kakiemon palette with a long-tailed Ho-Ho bird perched on rockwork with flowering branches a red phoenix bird in flight to the reverse, with a brown line rim, 7cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
With Steppes Hill Farm Antiques
Literature
Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, 2001, p.37, fig.3.25 (left)
An almost identical example with the rare Crown and Trident mark found on lot 61 in this sale is illustrated by Simon Spero, The Bowles Collection of 18th-Century English and French Porcelain, 1995, p.17, fig.7. The design was later adopted by Worcester and became known as the 'Joshua Reynolds' Pattern.