A WORCESTER BLUE-SCALE WASTE-BOWL

CIRCA 1770

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A WORCESTER BLUE-SCALE WASTE-BOWL
Circa 1770
Painted in colours with Chinamen seated in landscape vignettes reserved with gilt rocaille cartouches on the blue-scale ground and with smaller cartouches of colourful moths and other insects; together with a gros blue oviform tea caddy of similar date, blue cresent mark, painted with oval panels of Chinese figures beside pavilions reserved on the dark blue ground within gilt zig-zag bands, the dark blue ground gilt with scattered sprigs
5in. (14.6cm.) high, the waste-bowl; 5in. (13.9cm.) high, the tea caddy (2)

Provenance

With James A. Lewis & Son, Inc., New York (the waste-bowl)
The Estate of Marcel H. Stieglitz; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 22-23 January 1954, lot 257 (the waste-bowl)
A Private Collection, Washington, D.C.; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 13 November 1953, lot 137 (part - the tea-caddy)

Lot Essay

See R.I. Hobson, Catalogue of the Frank Lloyd Collection of Worcester Porcelain, 1903, no. 345, pl. 70 for similarly decorated scalloped dish. Also Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, 1996, no. 310 for a gros blue teabowl and saucer similarly decorated to the present teacaddy.

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