A Worcester silver-shaped sauceboat

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A Worcester silver-shaped sauceboat
with scroll handle, moulded with swags of fruit and flowers issuing from cornucopia, suspended from bows below scroll and shell moulded rim, the oval foot moulded with further festoons, painted in a bright palette, the interior painted in underglaze blue, colours and gilt with a vignette of boulders before trees below shells, flowers and feathers, circa 1751 (a section of the handle broken and restuck, the foot detached and repaired) -- 23cm. wide
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Cf. H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (1954), pl. 3, no. 52 for a related sauceboat and pl. 52, no. 1059 for a Bristol sauceboat with similar moulding; also see Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain The Klepser Collection (1984), p. 33, no. 23, col. pl. 10.

The paste of the above example closely resembles that used by Benjamin Lund at Bristol, the current example may well be made at Bristol and decorated at Worcester.

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