Lot Essay
Cf. Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The Klesper Collection (1984), p. 35, pl. 25, for a sauceboat of similar form
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CIRCA 1753
Details
A Worcester silver-shaped sauceboat
Circa 1753
Painted in the famille verte palette with vignettes of an Oriental man holding a rod suspending a basket, a boat on the seas before, and a bird perched on rockwork between flowering branches, within cartouches moulded with flowering branches, the interior painted with a flower-spray below a diaper-pattern border reserved with panels of demi-flowerheads (restored, some flaking to enamels of interior)
6½in. (16.5cm.) wide
Circa 1753
Painted in the famille verte palette with vignettes of an Oriental man holding a rod suspending a basket, a boat on the seas before, and a bird perched on rockwork between flowering branches, within cartouches moulded with flowering branches, the interior painted with a flower-spray below a diaper-pattern border reserved with panels of demi-flowerheads (restored, some flaking to enamels of interior)
6½in. (16.5cm.) wide
Special notice
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.