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Lot 160

A rare Worcester milk jug and cover, circa 1768-72

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Worcester milk jug and cover, circa 1768-72

Of baluster shape with a sparrow beak spout, painted with an unusual Chinese famille rose pattern of a shepherd standing by his sheep in a garden, watched from a balcony by four 'Mandarin' figures at gilt-edged windows, hexagonal cell borders,
13.8cm high (2)

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Provenance
Zorensky Collection, Bonham's sale, 23 February 2005, lot 63
Ralph Kenber Collection

The only other recorded example of this pattern is a saucer dish from the Sir Jeremy Lever Collection, sold by Bonhams, 7 March 2007, lot 58. These were possibly made as replacements for a Chinese service. See Sandon and Spero, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.172, no.176.

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