A WORCESTER (FLIGHT & BARR) BOUGH-POT AND PIERCED COVER

1792-1804, BLACK FLIGHT & BARR, WORR. MANUFACTURERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES. MARK

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A WORCESTER (FLIGHT & BARR) BOUGH-POT AND PIERCED COVER
1792-1804, black Flight & Barr, Worr. Manufacturers to their Majesties. mark
Of lunette form, designed in two registers with architectural paneling, painted en grisaille with a young girl feeding a bunny rabbit, this central panel flanked by gilt striped pilasters flanking side panels of gilt and grisaille scrolls and arabesques, the lower portion repeating the panels and with corresponding decoration, a gilt and grisaille foliate scroll beneath the painted scene, the separate cover with three bough holes with everted mouths and four simple apertures
6¾ in. (16.5 cm.) high; 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

The painting on the present bough pot is after an engraving by Charles Knight (1743-c.1826) entitled The Favourite Rabbit. It is a pair with another entitled Tom and his Pigeons by the same artist, both engraved after paintings by John Russell (1745-1806).

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