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An exceptional Worcester decagonal beaker or bowl, circa 1752-53
13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
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An exceptional Worcester decagonal beaker or bowl, circa 1752-53
Gently flared on a neat ten-sided footrim, painted with Chinese figures in a landscape, a lady seated in an iron-red throne gestures to a boy holding a kite or lantern, a willow tree and a red fence on either side, a sampan with a sail and huts on an island on the reverse, a panelled green-diaper border inside, 9.3cm wide, 5.8cm high
Footnotes
Small bowls resembling wide beakers were made in several moulded forms at Worcester in the early period. Decagonal shapes are particularly rare and, like the twelve-sided teabowls and saucers, they may have been intended to set Worcester apart from contemporary Chelsea or Chinese porcelain. A similar decagonal bowl in this pattern was in Albert Amor's First Decade Exhibition, 1981, no.16. Others painted with birds and plants are illustrated by Simon Spero, Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain, fig.54 and H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain (1955), pl.1, fig.11A. Another with a bird was shown in Simon Spero's 2010 Exhibition, no.19.