Details
Comprising: A pair of John Rogers and Son ‘Zebra’ pattern platters, a pair of English pottery platters, possibly Swansea and a single willow pattern example
19 x 14 in. (48.5 x 40.5 cm.) the Zebra platters, 17 x 13 in (43 x 33 cm.), the possibly Swansea platters
Provenance
With Oliver Messel at Maddox, Barbados and by descent.
Literature
P. Devlin, 'Maddox House of Messel', Vogue, 1 March 1969, p. 198, three illustrated in the loggia.
T. Messel, Oliver Messel: In the Theatre of Design, London, 2011, p. 152, illustrated in the loggia.
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See A.W. Coysh, Blue and White Transfer Ware 1780-1840 (1974), p. 63, for examples of John Rogers and Son ‘Zebra’ pattern.

Norman Parkinson photographed Appolina van Ravenstein with two of the Zebra pattern examples at Maddox in 1973, see Sotheby's, London, 18 September 2018, lot 60.

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