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Lot 137

A Worcester twelve-sided concave-fluted saucer, circa 1752

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester twelve-sided concave-fluted saucer, circa 1752

Sharply moulded with deep, concave flutes, painted in Chinese style with a 'Long Eliza' figure holding a rui-sceptre from which a puppet-like form is hanging, on an island with a pine tree, a figure in a sampan behind, within a border of flowerhead panels and green diaper, 13cm wide (cracked)

Footnotes

A matching teabowl was in the Zorensky Collection, part III, lot 14 and a very similar saucer was in Simon Spero's 2006 exhibition, no.18. For a teabowl and saucer in the A.J.Smith Collection see Simon Spero, Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain (2005), p.172, fig.80.

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