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Lot 163

A Worcester dry mustard pot and a cover, circa 1753-55

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester dry mustard pot and a cover, circa 1753-55

Of gentle baluster form, transfer printed in outline and washed in colours with the 'Red Bull' pattern of two figures in conversation beside cattle, a further figure standing before rocks and trees, a red sun in the sky above, together with a domed cover with a bud finial, hand painted with a stork, 12cm high

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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.

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