A Worcester double-lipped two-handled sauceboat

CIRCA 1755

细节

A Worcester double-lipped two-handled sauceboat
Circa 1755
Of small size, the moulded scroll handles with flat oval thumbpieces, the exterior delicately painted with figures of a gallant and companion each within four moulded circular oakleaf cartouches flanking the lower terminal of the handles and the fluted lips, the interior with a loose bouquet and the lips each with a female mask, flanked by shells and scrolls and pendant flowers beneath a brown-line rim (crack to lower terminal of one handle, slight rubbing to rim)
6 in. (17 cm.) wide

拍品专文

Cf. H. Rissik Marshall, op. cit. (1954), pl. 5, no. 74 and another, perhaps by the same hand, sold in these Rooms, 18 March 1985, lot 125. See also Simon Spero and John Sandon, op. cit. (1996), p. 128, no. 102.