THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A WORCESTER PEACH-SHAPED WINE-TASTER, the interior painted in a famille rose palette with a flower-spray and insect beneath a border of flowers, with basketwork-moulded exterior and the brown and yellow entwined branch handle with pink, yellow and green flower terminal (slight rubbing to enamel on handle), circa 1765

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A WORCESTER PEACH-SHAPED WINE-TASTER, the interior painted in a famille rose palette with a flower-spray and insect beneath a border of flowers, with basketwork-moulded exterior and the brown and yellow entwined branch handle with pink, yellow and green flower terminal (slight rubbing to enamel on handle), circa 1765
9.5cm. wide

Lot Essay

Cf. the example sold in these Rooms on 12 February 1990, lot 121 and the pair from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1990, lots 487 and 488. See also Franklin Barrett, Worcester Porcelain and Lund's Bristol, pl. 61B and F. Severne Mackenna, Worcester Porcelain, The Wall Period & its Antecedents, pl. 27, no. 55

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