A WORCESTER POWDERED-BLUE-GROUND FACETED BOTTLE AND A BASIN painted with exotic birds among berried foliage and with butterflies and insects within shaped gilt scroll cartouches reserved on powdered-blue grounds gilt with flower-sprays, the bottle with later giltmetal mount and giltmetal-mounted cork stopper with chain attachment (the bottle with repair to rim of neck), circa 1765 | Christie's

Lot 185

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A WORCESTER POWDERED-BLUE-GROUND FACETED BOTTLE AND A BASIN painted with exotic birds among berried foliage and with butterflies and insects within shaped gilt scroll cartouches reserved on powdered-blue grounds gilt with flower-sprays, the bottle with later giltmetal mount and giltmetal-mounted cork stopper with chain attachment (the bottle with repair to rim of neck), circa 1765

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A WORCESTER POWDERED-BLUE-GROUND FACETED BOTTLE AND A BASIN painted with exotic birds among berried foliage and with butterflies and insects within shaped gilt scroll cartouches reserved on powdered-blue grounds gilt with flower-sprays, the bottle with later giltmetal mount and giltmetal-mounted cork stopper with chain attachment (the bottle with repair to rim of neck), circa 1765
the bottle 27cm. high overall, the basin 28cm. diam. (2)

Provenance

Robert Drane Collection
Rous Lench Collection

Literature

'Old Worcester Porcelain, formed by the late Mr. Robert Drane', Exhibition Catalogue, 1922, Albert Amor, nos. 768 and 769

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