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Lot Essay
For a discussion of this rare form of butter-cooler, see Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Woodbridge, 1996, p. 121. Spero describes its function as a vessel that could elegantly carry butter from the dairy to the table, and discusses its stylistic origins which include the wooden butter-churn itself, as well its derivation from antecendents in silver, Japanese Arita porcelain, Dutch Delft, Meissen, saltglaze, Chelsea and Derby porcelain.
Cf. the matched pair from the collection of the late H.C.L. Kingsford-Lethbridge , sold in these Rooms, 19 October 1970, lot 69 and again from the Wilkinson Collection on 28 April 1975, lot 51; one of these, the example with pink bands, was sold again in these Rooms on 18th March 1985, lot 124. Single examples were sold in these Rooms from the Phelps Collection, sold 1 October 1984, lot 8 (now in the Zorensky Collection; see Simon Spero, ibid., p. 121, no. 90); and one from the Rous Lench Collection on 30 May 1990, lot 486. See also H. Rissik Marshall, oloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (London, 1954), plate 6, no. 101, for the example in the Ashmolean Museum.
Cf. the matched pair from the collection of the late H.C.L. Kingsford-Lethbridge , sold in these Rooms, 19 October 1970, lot 69 and again from the Wilkinson Collection on 28 April 1975, lot 51; one of these, the example with pink bands, was sold again in these Rooms on 18th March 1985, lot 124. Single examples were sold in these Rooms from the Phelps Collection, sold 1 October 1984, lot 8 (now in the Zorensky Collection; see Simon Spero, ibid., p. 121, no. 90); and one from the Rous Lench Collection on 30 May 1990, lot 486. See also H. Rissik Marshall, oloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (London, 1954), plate 6, no. 101, for the example in the Ashmolean Museum.