Three Worcester saucer dishes and two small bowls
Circa 1755-65.
All black printed, one of the dishes with a rare version of 'Peeping Tom', 18.7cm diam (some scratches and rubbing to print), one with with a version of the 'Tea Party, No 2', with a man servant and a leopard and musical trophies, 18.2cm diam (very fine rim crack), and another with 'The Milkmaids', all within black line rims, 18cm diam (rim chip and crack), one bowl with 'The Draw Well' and three subsidiary prints, 10.4cm diam, the other with three various prints of ruins, one with a monument of a gentleman on horseback, 12cm (restoration to rim) (5)
All black printed, one of the dishes with a rare version of 'Peeping Tom', 18.7cm diam (some scratches and rubbing to print), one with with a version of the 'Tea Party, No 2', with a man servant and a leopard and musical trophies, 18.2cm diam (very fine rim crack), and another with 'The Milkmaids', all within black line rims, 18cm diam (rim chip and crack), one bowl with 'The Draw Well' and three subsidiary prints, 10.4cm diam, the other with three various prints of ruins, one with a monument of a gentleman on horseback, 12cm (restoration to rim) (5)
Sold for
£432
inc. premium
Footnotes
- For the more usual version of the 'Peeping Tom' print see the Norman Stretton Collection, sold Phillips, 21 February 2001, lots 12 and 121, where it is suggested that it could have been printed in Birmingham. The composition of this version is quite different in the position of the figures
See illustration of the first dish
Category: Decorative Arts / General Ceramics and Glass
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