A WORCESTER LARGE IMARI-PATTERN GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER painted with the Old Japan Fan pattern, the spout with a running fox and the motto TALLY-HO on a pink ribbon cartouche below (minute chip to tip of spout), mock Oriental character mark in blue within a double circle, circa 1775

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A WORCESTER LARGE IMARI-PATTERN GLOBULAR TEAPOT AND COVER painted with the Old Japan Fan pattern, the spout with a running fox and the motto TALLY-HO on a pink ribbon cartouche below (minute chip to tip of spout), mock Oriental character mark in blue within a double circle, circa 1775
21cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's, 7 June 1976, lot 108

Lot Essay

Cf. H. Rissik Marshall, op. cit., pl. 7, no. 127 and the example inscribed on the spout 'Crank' from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1990, lot 510

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