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Lot 159

A rare Worcester bowl, circa 1756

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Worcester bowl, circa 1756

Painted in famille rose palette with an elaborate Chinese landscape, a kiln-like structure within a fenced compound beneath overhanging rocks, a bridge connecting two islands, the foreground with a man on horseback, his companion on foot carrying packages slung from a rod across his shoulders, another man in a sampan fishing, with buildings on tall stilts at the waterside nearby, the interior with scattered sprigs and panelled diaper border just below the rim, 15.1cm diam,

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Provenance
Van Slyke Collection
Mrs S B Sargeant Collection
Zorensky Collection, Bonhams sale, 16 March 2004, lot 22
Ralph Kenber Collection

The painting on this bowl is exceptional in its use of perspective and depth and may have been made as a replacement for a Chinese original as part of a service. A Worcester teapot of the same pattern is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (C.74-1946), while in the H Rissik Marshall Collection in the Ashmolean Museum a Worcester teabowl is combined with a Chinese saucer. Zorka Hodgson refers to this design as the 'Bridge Inn' pattern and discusses it in her paper 'Origin of Chinese Designs on Early Worcester', see ECC Trans., Vol.12, Part 3, (1986), p.197.

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