Lot Essay
Cf. the example sold in these Rooms, 14 October 1985, lot 130.
CIRCA 1754, SCRATCH CROSS AND PAINTER'S MARK
Details
A Worcester blue and white baluster coffee-pot and cover
Circa 1754, scratch cross and painter's mark
With slightly curved spout and scroll handle, painted with flowering shrubs issuing from a fence beside rockwork beneath a hatched pattern border, the handle painted with scrolls, the shallow domed cover with knob finial (hairline crack around top terminal of handle, firing crack around lower terminal, minute chip to tip of finial)
7¼in. (18.5cm.) high
Circa 1754, scratch cross and painter's mark
With slightly curved spout and scroll handle, painted with flowering shrubs issuing from a fence beside rockwork beneath a hatched pattern border, the handle painted with scrolls, the shallow domed cover with knob finial (hairline crack around top terminal of handle, firing crack around lower terminal, minute chip to tip of finial)
7¼in. (18.5cm.) high