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Lot 116

A Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1754-55

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1754-55

Of eggshell thinness, the rims very slightly everted, painted with Chinese flowering plants in distinctive colours, the buds and petals washed in red and purple, the veins of brown leaves picked out in fine gilt lines, an insect in flight pencilled to one side, the saucer 12.1cm diam

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Provenance
Ralph Kenber Collection

This unusual pattern directly copies Chinese porcelain from the Yongzheng period, imported about twenty years earlier.

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