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Lot 161

A Worcester teapot and cover, circa 1756-7

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester teapot and cover, circa 1756-7

Of slightly compressed globular form with a pointed mushroom finial, printed in brown with 'La Cascade', the reverse with a group of five sheep, the cover with smaller vignettes, within delicately painted formal borders, signed in the print below the fountain 'R Hancock fecit' 12.2cm high (2)

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Provenance
E and J Handley Collection, Simon Spero exhibition 2000, no.16
Ralph Kenber Collection

Illustrated by Joseph M Handley, 18th Century English Transfer-Printed Porcelain and Enamels (1991), p.52. The source is a painting by Watteau via an engraving by G Scotin. For a matching teabowl see Sandon and Spero, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.380, no.490.

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