A Worcester blue-ground teabowl and saucer

CIRCA 1770, BLUE CRESCENT MARKS

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A Worcester blue-ground teabowl and saucer
Circa 1770, blue crescent marks
Painted in a bright famille rose palette with Orientals outside a pavilion and at discussion in a river landscape within gilt oval cartouches flanked by gilt foliage and flowers, within gilt line rims

Lot Essay

Cf. H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (1954), pl. 26, no. 588; Simon Spero, op. cit., no. 128 and col. pl. 34; see also the cream-jug and cover sold in these Rooms, 29 May 1990, lot 269.

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