A WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE BOUGH-POT in the rococo taste and of bombé form, painted with two birds perched on a fence in a landscape vignette and with two further birds in flight above, the side panels with birds in flight, within shaped foliate and S-scroll moulded cartouches beneath an elaborate raised scroll-moulded rim, the pierced top with a large central lobed oval aperture and the back pierced for hanging, circa 1758

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A WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE BOUGH-POT in the rococo taste and of bombé form, painted with two birds perched on a fence in a landscape vignette and with two further birds in flight above, the side panels with birds in flight, within shaped foliate and S-scroll moulded cartouches beneath an elaborate raised scroll-moulded rim, the pierced top with a large central lobed oval aperture and the back pierced for hanging, circa 1758
22cm. wide

Lot Essay

See Franklin A. Barrett, Worcester Porcelain & Lund's Bristol, pl.19 for a coloured example. See also H. Rissik Marshall, op. cit., pl. 32, no. 696 and the example sold in these Rooms on 18 May 1981, lot 85

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