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Lot 151

A good Worcester wine taster, circa 1765-68

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A good Worcester wine taster, circa 1765-68

Finely moulded in the shape of a half-peach, the exterior with crisp ozier moulding beneath delicately embossed peach blossom and leaves sprouting from an applied twig handle and a tripod foot ring, naturalistically coloured, the inside rim with a formal flower border in famille rose palette and a similar flower and insect inside the base, 10cm wide

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Provenance
Ralph Kenber Collection

The shape derives from a Chinese prototype, probably intended for a scholar's table. Peaches are a recognisable symbol of longevity in Chinese art. For discussions of this rare form at Worcester see Sandon and Spero, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.122 and John Sandon, Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, p.368. A very similar wine taster from The Sir Jeremy Lever Collection was sold by Bonhams, 7 March 2007, lot 203. For a slightly larger example in the John Alchin Collection see lot 57 in this sale.

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