A Worcester hexagonal pear-shaped bottle

CIRCA 1754

Details

A Worcester hexagonal pear-shaped bottle
Circa 1754
Painted in the Kakiemon palette with prunus and bamboo issuing from banded hedges, the reverse with a flowering plant and scattered flowerheads beneath an iron-red line border with pendant pink flowerheads and iron-red tendrils (extended crack to back with small piece lacking, slight glaze blemish to shoulder at back)
4 in. (11.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anon. sale Sotheby's, 6 May 1969, lot 67.

Lot Essay

Cf. the examples from the Rous Lench Collection, sold in these Rooms, 30 May 1990, lots 448 and 449. See also F. Barrett, op. cit. (1953), pl. 10A. See also Simon Spero and John Sandon, op. cit. (1996), p. 94, no. 48.

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