1765-1770

Details

A WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE DOLPHIN EWER
1765-1770
The shell-form cream boat with lamprey handle, molded below the spout with entwined dolphoins above a scallop shell, the lower portion with a similar shell centering vines, the foot with stiff leaf tips, loosely painted with flower sprays, the interior of the rim with a leaf-tip band
3¾in. (9.5cm.) high; 4in. (10.1cm.) long

Provenance

The Carborundum Museum of Ceramics, Cleveland, 1973.52

Special notice

This lot has no reserve.

Lot Essay

For a similarly moulded blue and white dolphin ewer attributed to Worcester and with a blue cresent mark, see Dreweatt-Neate, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1900 from the Dyson Perrins Museum and Private Collections, Loan Exhibition Catalogue, November 1995, no. 65.; allso Bernartd Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1973 ed., pl. 34A.

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