A Worcester baluster mug
A Worcester baluster mug

CIRCA 1752, INCISED TO FOOTRIM

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A Worcester baluster mug
Circa 1752, incised to footrim
The loop handle with scroll terminal, painted in a delicate famille rose palette with a pheasant perched on pierced blue rockwork flanked by trailing flowering peony and with a bird behind a boulder and flowering plants to the right, beneath a green diaper and flowerhead border (small restored rim chip and two restored cracks to rim)
3 in. (9.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. the example exhibited by Albert Amor Ltd., Worcester Porcelain, The First Decade 1751-1761 5th - 25th June 1981, no. 21.

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