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Lot 103

A Worcester dry mustard pot and cover, circa 1753-54

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester dry mustard pot and cover, circa 1753-54

Of gentle baluster form with a broad spreading foot, the high domed cover with a pointed mushroom finial, painted in Chinese style with the 'Honeysuckle' or 'Hibiscus' pattern, the cover with further flowers and a stork in flight, 12.5cm high (2)

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Provenance
Ralph Kenber Collection

Illustrated by John Sandon, Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain (1993), p.242. An example of the same pattern is illustrated by H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain (1954), no.55, and another was exhibited by Simon Spero, exhibition 2008, no.38. All of these mustard pots have the same flying stork on the cover.

This is an early example of the 'Honeysuckle' pattern (also known as 'Hibiscus' pattern in the United States), see John Sandon (1993), p.199.

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