TWO WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-FORM SAUCE BOATS

CIRCA 1755-1765, BLUE WORKMAN'S MARK TO ONE, BLUE OPEN CRESCENT MARK TO THE OTHER

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TWO WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE SILVER-FORM SAUCE BOATS
Circa 1755-1765, blue workman's mark to one, blue open crescent mark to the other
One with two scroll handles issuing from feuille-de-choux terminals and with two shell-moulded spouts, moulded with meandering vines enclosing panels painted with Chinoiserie landscapes, 6.5/8in. (16.8cm.) wide; the other of serpentine form with flaring foot and scroll handle, painted with a Chinese figures in landscapes reserved within moulded rocaille scrolls on the basket-weave moulded ground, 7in. (19.7cm.) wide overall (2)

拍品專文

See Bernard Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century, London, 1973, fig. 30B right for a two-handled double-spouted sauce boat similarly moulded to the present example but with variant handles.