A Worcester baluster cream-jug

CIRCA 1752

Details

A Worcester baluster cream-jug
Circa 1752
With generous scroll handle, painted in a delicate famille rose palette with a stork beside a flowering plant and grasses, with scattered insects in flight above (restoration near lip and to footrim)
2 in. (7 cm.) high

Provenance

Wallace Elliot, sale Sotheby's, 24 May 1938, lot 126.
Mrs G. C. Stephens, sale Sotheby's, 1 October 1974, lot 6.

Lot Essay

Cf. the example exhibited by Albert Amor Ltd., The Cohen Collection of Early Worcester Porcelain (1992), no. 19 and another sold in these Rooms, 20 May 1991, lot 223. See also Simon Spero and John Sandon, op. cit. (1996), p. 72, no. 9 for a saucer bearing similar decoration.

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