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Each painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Sir Joshua Reynolds' pattern with a long-tailed bird perched on turquoise rockwork among flowering branches, the fluted dishes embellished with gilt C-scrolls and leafy branches on the blue ground, the cup and saucer with brown-line rims
1018 in. (25.7 cm.) long, the dishes
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Lot Essay

By tradition, a service in this pattern was owned by the great English painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). For a further discussion of this pattern and its variants, see J. Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain 1751-1851, Vol. I, Suffolk, 1996, p. 284.

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