
Fergus Gambon
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Provenance
Lady Reigate Collection
Simon Spero exhibition, 2002, no.22
Ralph Kenber Collection
A very similar dry mustard pot, with its original transfer printed cover, is illustrated by John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain (2009), p.9.
The Red Bull Pattern
Based on an earlier Chinese famille rose design from the Yongzheng period, the Red Bull pattern was one of the first designs to be transfer-printed at Worcester. A so-called 'smoky Primitive' outline was intended to be filled-in in colours, using a process that was probably Worcester's own invention. Some early prints on English enamels were washed over in colours, but these do not feature the coloured-in hard outlines used at Worcester.