The Fancy Fox

Description

A striking rococo style porcelain pen tray by Samuel Alcock with shaped rim and moulded scrolled handle to the back. Scalloped fluting radiates out across the dish. Set on three ball and claw feet with stylised acanthus leaf moulded terminals. Decorated with Alcock's distinctive plum burgundy enamel ground to the edge intersected with salmon and gilt flashes and salmon colouring to the scrolled handle. Stylised gilt patterns decorate the burgundy and salmon, and hanging gilt branches drop into the central shaped reserve festooned with plum berries. In the centre is painted a large spray of garden flowers in bright coloured enamels. Gilded rim and details to the claws of the feet. Unmarked, c.1835.

It measures 24cm (9 7/16") wide by 9cm (3 1/2") deep and 6cm (2 3/8") high.

In excellent condition with no damage or repair and minor handling wear. There is a tiny firing fault to the rim.
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