A GROUP OF WORCESTER PRINTED AND 'PENCILLED' TEAWARES
CIRCA 1756-60, BLUE PSEUDO-CHINESE SEAL MARK TO SAUCER
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A GROUP OF WORCESTER PRINTED AND 'PENCILLED' TEAWARES
Circa 1756-60, blue pseudo-Chinese seal mark to saucer
Each decorated in shades of lilac camae, including: a fluted cup and saucer printed with the 'Tea Party, No. 2' pattern after Robert Hancock; a coffee-cup printed with two vignettes of ruins; a baluster cup with wishbone handle, painted with Oriental figures before a building and a junk with lateen sail in the distance and a similarly decorated spiral-fluted creamboat moulded around the foot with foliate scrolls
3in. (8.9cm.) high, the creamboat (4)
Sale room notice
Please note the count should read (5)
Lot Essay
Cf. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, London, 1954, pl. 6, no. 102 for a teabowl and saucer similarly painted in mauve pencilling
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