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Lot Essay
See Samuel M. Clarke, Worcester Porcelain in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, p. 23, pl. 9 for a teapot and cover enamelled with this pattern. For a nearly identical example see The English Ceramic Circle 1927-1948, English Pottery and Porcelain, Commemorative Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, May 5th-June 20, 1948, pl. 84, no. 402, lent by Mr. & Mrs. A.W. Tuke, formerly in the Wallace Elliot Collection and then Anthony Tuke, sale Sotheby's, 30 March 1976, lot 5. It was also illustrated by Franklin A. Barrett, Worcester Porcelain, London 1853, pl. 10B.
For a similar mug see Anne M. George, Albert Amor Ltd., The Cohen Collection of Early Worcester Porcelain, p. 30, pl. 68, the seated figure with a fan in her hand. See The Watney Collection, Part I, Phillips, London, 22 September 1999, lot 149 for a coffee cup and p. 70 for a discussion on the physical links between Lund's Bristol and early enamelled wares at Worcester. Please note there is a paper label on the underside which bears the penned inscription, 'Lowdin's Worcester attributed to Michael Edkins, c. 1752'. The artisan Michael Edkins is recorded mainly as an enameller on Bristol opaque white glass. Bernard Watney's scholarship and archaeological evidence helped redefine this category. Current evidence suggests that no enamelling was carried out at Lund's Bristol, the site of Lowdin's Glasswork. These wares are now thought to be early Worcester.
For a similar mug see Anne M. George, Albert Amor Ltd., The Cohen Collection of Early Worcester Porcelain, p. 30, pl. 68, the seated figure with a fan in her hand. See The Watney Collection, Part I, Phillips, London, 22 September 1999, lot 149 for a coffee cup and p. 70 for a discussion on the physical links between Lund's Bristol and early enamelled wares at Worcester. Please note there is a paper label on the underside which bears the penned inscription, 'Lowdin's Worcester attributed to Michael Edkins, c. 1752'. The artisan Michael Edkins is recorded mainly as an enameller on Bristol opaque white glass. Bernard Watney's scholarship and archaeological evidence helped redefine this category. Current evidence suggests that no enamelling was carried out at Lund's Bristol, the site of Lowdin's Glasswork. These wares are now thought to be early Worcester.