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Lot 181

A Worcester water bottle and basin
circa 1765

14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£1,200 - £1,500

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A Worcester water bottle and basin

circa 1765
Of pear shape, the elongated neck with a knop below the rim, painted in blue with the 'Willow Bridge Fisherman' pattern with vignettes of two fishermen on a bridge below a weeping willow, and a man beside a Chinese building, carrying a walking stick and with a bird perched upon his hand, within diaper borders reserving panels of birds, 28cm high, crescent marks (very slight star crack in the underside of the bowl)

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A similar bottle together with matching wasters from the factory site is illustrated by Henry Sandon, Worcester Porcelain (1969), figs 17 and 21

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