Lot Essay
Cf. Simon Spero and John Sandon, op. cit. (1996), p. 69, no. 5.
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CIRCA 1754, INCISED TO FOOTRIM
Details
A Worcester baluster coffee-pot and cover
Circa 1754, incised to footrim
With curved spout and loop handle with scroll terminal, painted in a delicate famille rose palette, each side with two Asiatic pheasants perched and strutting among pierced blue rockwork with trailing flowering shrubs and before grasses, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated and with onion finial, the spout with a trailing flowering plant (slight chip to underside rim of cover)
7 in. (18 cm.) high
Circa 1754, incised to footrim
With curved spout and loop handle with scroll terminal, painted in a delicate famille rose palette, each side with two Asiatic pheasants perched and strutting among pierced blue rockwork with trailing flowering shrubs and before grasses, the shallow domed cover similarly decorated and with onion finial, the spout with a trailing flowering plant (slight chip to underside rim of cover)
7 in. (18 cm.) high
Provenance
Selwyn Parkinson, sale Sotheby's, 29 March 1966, lot 8.
Mrs. F. Shand Kydd.
Mrs. F. Shand Kydd.
