Lot Essay
This pattern was derived from a design dated 1756 in the John Bowles Drawing Book. The Liverpool firm of Sadler and Green engraved and printed it onto pottery and porcelain blanks from a variety of sources. See The English Ceramics Circle, Transactions, Vol. 9 , Part 1, 1973, p. 45, D2-3; see also D. Stretton, 'Liverpool Engravers and their Sources', Connoisseur, August 1976. For other examples of this pattern see 18th Century English Transfer-Printed Porcelain and Enamels (1991), p. 249 and Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection (1984), no. 177.