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Provenance:
Stanley Fisher, Bewdley 1965
H. Trevor Lloyd Collection
This previously unrecorded sauceboat is the only known example of this design. With a resemblance to Lund's Bristol, it has parallels with a sauceboat in the Victoria and Albert Museum and another from the Watney and R. David Butti Collections illustrated by Nick Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats (2009), fig.204. Both are decorated with the 'Early Bird' pattern (I.C.2) and show a similar use of a 'trekked' outline. The glaze on the present lot has a slightly-matt, almost experimental appearance indicative of an early date. Most Worcester high-footed sauceboats of this shape and date were decorated in enamels and blue and white examples are exceptional.