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Lot 180

A small Worcester bowl, circa 1756-57

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£400 - £600

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A small Worcester bowl, circa 1756-57

Of plain round form, transfer-printed in black with 'Le Cheval Fondu', showing children playing leapfrog, the reverse and interior printed with rural milking scenes, 13.3cm diam

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Provenance
Phillips, Liverpool Porcelain exhibition, March 1997
Norman Stretton Collection, Phillips sale, 21 February 2001, lot 145
Ralph Kenber Collection

The source for 'Le Cheval Fondu' is an engraving after Hubert Gravelot, one in a series of scenes of children at play. See Cyril Cook's paper in ECC transactions, Vol. 3, Part 1 (1951). A similar bowl from the Capell and Tuke Collections is illustrated by Joseph M Handley, 18th Century English Transfer-Printed Porcelain and Enamels (1991), item. 8.21., described as Chaffers. This bowl was reattributed to Worcester and an earlier date suggested in Simon Spero's exhibition 2000, no. 19.

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