A WORCESTER PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE VASE

CIRCA 1753

Details

A WORCESTER PORCELAIN CHINOISERIE VASE
Circa 1753
Of hexagonal bottle-shape, finely painted with a Chinese figure standing before a fenced garden, the reverse with flowering plants, on a short flaring foot
4¾ in. (12 cm.) high

Provenance

The Hughes Collection
Purchased from James A. Lewis & Son, Inc., New York, March 1945, (paper label)

Sale room notice

Please note that the catalogue image for this lot is incorrectly labelled as lot 601.

Lot Essay

See Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection, London, 1984, colour pl. 7 and p. 26, no. 10 for a very similar example. Also see H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of The First Period, 1954, p. 199, pl. 25, no. 566 for a similar example with a variant figure and no. 565 for a slightly variant form, but similarly posed figure; The Billie Pain Collection, London, 26 November 2003, lot 114

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