Live Auction 5555Ceramics
Lot 45THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A WORCESTER CYLINDRICAL MUG

Closed11 March 1996

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GBP 7,130

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A WORCESTER CYLINDRICAL MUG
Circa 1758

With slightly everted rim and grooved loop handle, painted in a famille rose palette with three Orientals in a garden flanked by pierced rockwork, willow trees and a pheasant in flight (two scratches to enamels)
3 3/8in. (8.5cm.) high

Specialist note

See Franklin A. Barrett, Worcester Porcelain and Lund's Bristol, pl. 10B for a mug of the same shape painted with a very similar subject. See also Exhibition Catalogue, Albert Amor Ltd., Worcester Porcelain, The First Decade 1751-1761, no. 38. A similar example was sold in these Rooms, 19 November 1973, lot 146