Live Auction 8050European Ceramics
Lot 82

A WORCESTER CYLINDRICAL TANKARD

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A WORCESTER CYLINDRICAL TANKARD
CIRCA 1765

Painted in the atelier of James Giles with an exotic bird standing in a landscape with shrubs within a shaped gilt cartouche, the sides with flower sprays (slight surface wear and wear to gilding)--4 7/8in. (12.4cm.) high

Anon. sale, Christie's London, September 17, 1979, Lot 109

Specialist note

Cf. Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection, London, 1984, pl. 163