Plate

Plate

ca. 1768-70

workshop of James Giles

London, (1718 - 1800)

Soft paste porcelain
Diam.: 9 in.
Kenneth and Priscilla Klepser Porcelain Collection
94.103.160
Provenance: [Possibly sold at Christie’s, London, UK, March 1774, Lot 47]; (unknown, 1774-1956); [Mr T. Leonard Crow, Welwyn Garden City, England, 1956]; sold to Mr and Mrs Kenneth and Priscilla Klepser, 1956-1994 (cf. Mr Crow’s letter dated April 13, 1956 to Mr Klepser); gift from Mr and Mrs Kenneth and Priscilla Klepser to Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1994
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection, August 8, 1985-September 22, 1985. 1984-85 circuit included: Minneapolis, MN, Minneapolis Institute of Art; San Francisco, CA, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Atlanta, GA, High Museum of Art; Sarasota, FL, Ringling Museum of Art.
Published ReferencesSpero, Simon. Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection. London: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, 1984, p. 140, no. 160, illus. (b&w p. 140; color pl. 47)

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