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Lot 470

Seven Pearlware Plates

Estimate: $500 - $700

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$100 $50
$1,000 $100
$2,000 $200
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$20,000 $2,000
$50,000 $5,000
$100,000 $10,000

British/Continental, 18th century, comprising: a pair of Herculaneum plates with blue pagodas and trees on an ivory ground, indistinct impressed mark to verso; a pair of blue and white plates depicting pagodas, with feather edge; blue and white plate with lobed edge, impressed cross mark to verso, probably William Greatbatch; blue and white plate depicting a figure with an umbrella near a pagoda, with "A'Riga IV, Charleston, SC" label to verso; a Dutch hand painted example depicting the bust of William V of Orange, initials "DW" and "D5" within floral border, with labels "Eugenia Cary Stoller Collection", "Bridges Collection #58" and "145" to verso, largest 9-1/2 in.

Provenance: Estate of Virginia B. Story, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina

Condition

pair of Herculaneum plates chipping to finish on rim, crazing, firing flaws to verso, dirty; pair of pagodas with crazing, scratching, several chips to rims, hairlines, firing flaws, dirty; William Greatbach sticker residue, chips to rims, firing flaws, discoloration, dirty; umbrella example with chipping to rim, areas of residue, dirty; William V discoloration, scratching, crazing, wear to painted decoration, chipping to rim, sticker residue to verso