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Lot 194

A Worcester teapot, cover and stand, milk jug and cover and a single teabowl, circa 1775

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester teapot, cover and stand, milk jug and cover and a single teabowl, circa 1775

Of reeded 'French' shape, the covers with flower finials, painted with a version of the 'Hop Trellis' pattern with swags of berried foliage suspended between puce trelliswork bound by gilt ribbons, with turquoise scale borders and gilded rims, teapot 11.9cm high (6)

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Provenance
Christie's sale 16 November 1992, lots 121 and 122
Ralph Kenber Collection

This decoration, loosely derived from Sèvres porcelain, is just one of many variations on the 'Hop Trellis' pattern produced at Worcester. Versions of the pattern also occurs on Chelsea-Derby porcelain of the 1770s, although on plain rather than fluted shapes.

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