Dessert plate: Aesop's Fables
Worcester Manufactory
(England)
Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale
(Irish, active in England 1734–1801)
about 1770
Medium/TechniqueSoft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels and gold
DimensionsOther (diam): 21.7 cm (8 9/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession number65.2146
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceEstate of the late Eli B. Springs. November 19-24, sold at the American Art Association sale, lot 281 as "painted by O'Neale." Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession date: December 24, 1965)
