A First Period Dr. Wall Worcester scalloped dessert plate

A First Period Dr. Wall Worcester scalloped dessert plate, the centre painted by Jeffryes Hamett O’Neale with the Fable of ‘The Stork and the Wolf’, within a simple gold scrolled border of ‘Heathcote’ type.

Circa 1768-70.

Mark
Fretted square in underglaze blue to the underside.

Taken from Barlow, ‘Aesop’s Fables’, London 1687 Fable LXXXII.

Provenance
Heathcote Sale, Sotheby’s, Lot 79, 21st February 1947; Sir John and Lady Heilbron Collection London;
Sir Peter and Lady Cresswell collection; English Private Collection.

Described by H.R.Marshall, ‘Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period’, p.46.

Dimensions
Diameter: 7½ ins. (19 cms.)

Item No. 834