A WORCESTER TRANSFER-PRINTED SMALL CYLINDRICAL MUG

CIRCA 1756-60

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A WORCESTER TRANSFER-PRINTED SMALL CYLINDRICAL MUG
CIRCA 1756-60
With groove handle, printed in black after Robert Hancock with the 'Parrot and Fruit' pattern and moths and insects, the handle painted in black with pendant scrolls, small stained starcrack to base, slight wear to black enamels
3½ in. (9 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

This design, by Robert Hancock, was printed in The Ladies' Amusement, a source for design and ornament which could be used by artist-craftsmen. The book was published in at least two editions in around 1758-62 by Robert Sayer of Fleet Street, see The Ladies's Amusement, Robert Sayer, (1966, reprint), p. 74 for this print. Three versions of the 'Parrot and Fruit' pattern exist, of which this is the earliest and considered by Cyril Cook to be one of the finest examples of Robert Hancock's work. See Cyril Cook, The Life Of Robert Hancock, London, 1948, p. 62, pl. 6 and also Simon Spero and John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Suffolk, 1996, p. 383.

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