TWO WORCESTER PORCELAIN LATER-DECORATED TABLE WARES

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1765-1775, THE DECORATION LATER

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TWO WORCESTER PORCELAIN LATER-DECORATED TABLE WARES
The porcelain circa 1765-1775, the decoration later
The first a scalloped-edged claret-ground dessert plate similarly painted with four foliate gilt cartouches about a central roundel with flowers; the second a mug of cylindrical form with reeded strap handle, painted front and back with brightly plumed exotic birds strutting and in flight among leafy branches, within rocaille gilt cartouches and feathered rim
4¾ in. (12.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

The plate, S.F. Worsley & Cockshutt Collection
Both purchased from Arthur S. Vernay, New York,
The mug January 1930 (paper label no. 2125), the plate, May 1930

Lot Essay

See Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The Klepser Collection, London, 1984, p. 146, pl. 169 for a similar claret ground plate which also has a superficial resemblence to the gilding pattern found on the 'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' service, no. 2.; See Samuel M. Clarke, Worcester Porcelain in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection, p. 32, pl. 18 for a very similar mug; also see Simon Spero and John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain, 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Suffolk, 1996, p. 500 for a similarly decorated bell-shaped mug.

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