CIRCA 1770, BLUE CRESCENT MARKS

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AN ASSEMBLED WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE FIVE-PIECE GARNITURE
CIRCA 1770, BLUE CRESCENT MARKS
Painted in the chinoiserie taste in 'The Telephone Box' pattern with 'Long Eliza' figures holding fans or serving tea, comprising: four graduated Gu-form trumpet-shaped vases in two sizes and an oviform vase and cover similarly painted and with a 'Dalmatian' dog, the border pattern of one beaker slightly variant
10¼in. (26cm.) high, the vase and cover; 7 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high, the largest beaker (6)

Lot Essay

See Albert Amor Limited, The Paul B. Zeisler Jr. Collection of 18th Century Enlish Blue & White Porcelain, Exhibition Catalogue, London, 10-20 October 1986, no. 65 for a pair of similar gu-form vases described as likely from a five-vase garniture; also H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain, Monmouthshire, 1954, pl. 24, fig. 548 and 549 for coloured examples of both forms; and The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain, Part III, Bonham's New Bond Street, London, 22 February 2006, lot 339 for a baluster vase painted in the same 'Telephone Box' pattern found on the present oviform vase and cover.

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