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Lot 115

A rare Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1753-55

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1753-55

Of almost eggshell thinness, both finely painted in an unusual manner and palette with a bird perched on a flowering peony branch above a fence, another bird gazing up at its companion from the ground underneath a chrysanthemum and prunus tree growing from banded hedges, the saucer 12.4cm diam (2)

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Provenance
Ralph Kenber Collection

See Simon Spero, 50th Anniversary Exhibition (2014), no. 33 for a discussion of the curious mixture of Japanese and Chinese decoration on a teapot and cover of the same pattern from his own collection. A similar teabowl and saucer from the Zorensky Collection was sold by Bonhams, 23 February 2005, lot 19.

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