The plate with border moulding of Mecklenburg Strelitz type, painted with colourful fruit and flowers including plums and cherries, within a border of flower bouquets alternating with turquoise ground panels of fancy butterflies and moths, the reverse with three large green leaves to the rim.
Diameter: 22.9 cm
Mark: None
Condition: A number of small chips to the gilt rim which have been touched in with paint.
Previously with Albert Amor, their label to base.
Provenance: Dr Ainslie Collection
The Mecklenburg Strelitz Service was made at Chelsea in 1763. The shape of this Bow example matches the earlier Chelsea form. A Bow example without the turquoise ground to the insect panels was exhibited by Albert Amor in the Golden Jubilee Exhibition, June 2002, catalogue number 41.
Price £575