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Plate depicting the fable "The Lion & the Mouse"
Made at: Worcester Manufactory (England)
Painted by: Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale (Irish, active in England 1734–1801)
Painted by: Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale (Irish, active in England 1734–1801)
English
about 1769
Object Place: Europe, England
Medium/Technique
Soft-paste porcelain with colored enamel and gilded decoration
Dimensions
Overall: 3.8 x 19.5 cm (1 1/2 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Janet M. Wolfson
Accession Number1982.68
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
Description"The Lion and the Mouse" - plate in soft-paste porcelain, fluted scalloped rim; mazarine blue ground, elaborate gilt scroll and diaper border around centralreserve, painted in polychrome enamels, after No. 23 in Barlow's 1666 edition of Aesop's Fables; gold dentil edge.
Marks
Mark: fretted square in underglaze blue
InscriptionsWolfson collection label, "W No. 66"
ProvenanceBastard collection; Lady Corah; July 20, 1971, sold by Lady Corah at Sotheby's, London, lot 66. Tilley and Co., London; by 1981, Mrs. Janet M. Wolfson, Brookline, MA; 1982, bequest of Mrs. Janet M. Wolfson. (Accession date: January 13, 1982)