A WORCESTER BARREL-SHAPED TEAPOT AND COVER with curved spout and lightly ribbed loop handle, painted with loose bouquets, scattered flowers and insects between yellow grooved bands, the inset cover with puce flower finial (minute chip to tip of spout and finial), circa 1760

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A WORCESTER BARREL-SHAPED TEAPOT AND COVER with curved spout and lightly ribbed loop handle, painted with loose bouquets, scattered flowers and insects between yellow grooved bands, the inset cover with puce flower finial (minute chip to tip of spout and finial), circa 1760
12.5cm. high
Provenance
Lady Corah, sale Sotheby's, 20 July 1970, lot 105
Literature
R.J. Charleston and Donald Towner, op. cit., no. 170
Exhibited
English Ceramic Circle Commemorative Exhibition, 1977, no. 170

Lot Essay

The only other recorded example is in the Dyson Perrins Collection, Worcester. For an example painted with Oriental flowers see H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, pl. 30, no. 663

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