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Lot 313

A very rare Worcester sauceboat, circa 1755-56

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £1,800

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A very rare Worcester sauceboat, circa 1755-56

Of cos lettuce form with a stalk handle, the sides moulded with a cartouche painted with the 'Staghunt' pattern, a crisp floral border moulded below the rim, the lip painted with a butterfly, 22cm long (fine crack across footrim)

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Provenance:
Zorensky Collection, sold by Bonhams 23 February 2005, lot 17

Exhibited: ECC Exhibition 2006, No.91. Illustrated by John Sandon and Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.99, fig.58 and by Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats (2009), p.123, figs.190 and 191. Cos lettuce sauceboats were very popular at Worcester in the 1750s but only a small number are recorded with the leaf moulding replaced by a moulded cartouche. Another example is in the Museum of London and another of a different pattern is illustrated by H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain (1954), p.127, pl.5, no.78

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