Live Auction 22125The Ann and Gordon Getty Collection: Temple of Wings
WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917)
Lot 4

WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917)

Two 'Persian' small plates, late 19th century

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WILLIAM DE MORGAN (1839-1917)
Two 'Persian' small plates, late 19th century
glazed ceramic
Each painted in the 'Iznik' style in blue, turquoise, green and mauve, the larger plate with ten radiating carnation blooms centering a turquoise carnation on a white ground, the smaller plate with a border of six trailing tulip buds surrounding a roundel of three blue carnations with interlacing stems, each plate with concentric blue and turquoise bands to its underside
The larger painted W. DE MORGAN. & Co, the smaller painted D.M
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter, the larger
7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) diameter, the smaller

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 28 July 1995, lot 68.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note

For a dish of nearly identical design to the larger plate in the Victoria & Albert Museum, see accession no. C.249-2018. Also see a near-identical example illustrated in M. Greenwood and R. Dennis, The Designs of William de Morgan, Ilminster, 1989, p. 220, pl. 134.
For various design elements related to the smaller plate, see Victoria & Albert Museum accession nos. C.105-1971, E.1160-1917 and E.1158-1917, as well as a bowl in the De Morgan Collection, Barnsley, object no. C.WDM.0001.