DATE LETTER T FOR 1882 AND REGISTRY DIAMOND FOR DECEMBER 1881, PUCE PAINTED CROWNED GLOBE MARK, IMPRESSED T3, DESIGNED BY R.W. BINNS, MODELED BY JAMES HADLEY

See H. Sandon, Royal Worcester Porcelain, London, 1978, p. 12, pl. 100 for a discussion on the piece as it relates to Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience; also see In Pursuit of Beauty, Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition Volume, October 23, 1986, to January 11, 1987, p. 25 - 28, fig. I.I, for a discussion on the general reaction to Aestheticism and a commentary which identifies this form as the satiric 'apotheosis'.