First Period Worcester Porcelain Aesop's Fable Plate, Circa 1775

First Period Worcester Porcelain Aesop's Fable Plate,
Lord Henry Thynne Pattern,
Fable of The Mischievous Dog, 
Style of  Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale,
Circa 1775.

The First Period Worcester porcelain scalloped plate is painted with a central circular reserved panel with a painting of The Aesop's Fable, The Mischievous dog. The border with groupings of fruit and birds in the Lord Henry Thynne pattern and the rim with a deep blue band with alternating blocks of very fine different gilt diaper designs.  The central panel with three dogs, one with a heavy collar on grass by a river bank.

The Aesop's Fable- The Mischievous Dog 

A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met and to bite them without notice.  His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went.  Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog
grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace.  One day an old hound said to him:  Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill-mannered dog."  

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Mark:  Blue crescent mark. 

Dimensions: Diameter 8 3/8 inches x 1 1/2 inches high

Reference: The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, Volume I, 1751-1851, Page 337 for discussion of the Lord Henry Thynne pattern and a plate illustrated with a very similar border design.  See Page 251 for discussion of Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.

Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, H. Rissik Marshall, Page 43 discusses the source for O'Neale which, he suggests, is from Francis Barlow's fable number XXII. 

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