A pair of Worcester sauceboats, circa 1755
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A pair of Worcester sauceboats, circa 1755
Of high-footed form with scrolled handles and shaped rims, printed in 'Smoky Primitive' style with a dovecote, the reverse with a windmill, the interior with a lady carrying a package on her head, a townscape in the distance, 15.8cm long (crack to one upper handle terminal) (2)
Estimate:
£1,200 - 1,500
US$ 1,800 - 2,300
€1,400 - 1,800

Footnotes

  • A similar sauceboat is illustrated by Joseph M Handley, Eighteenth Century Transfer-Printed Porcelain and Enamels (1991), p 172

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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