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Lot 20*

A Worcester coffee pot and cover, circa 1754-55

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £484.50 inc. premium

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A Worcester coffee pot and cover, circa 1754-55

Of 'Scratch Cross' type and with a characteristic greyish glaze, the baluster border supported by a spreading foot, the scrolled handle with thumbrest, painted in famille rose style with the 'Tea Ceremony' pattern, two Chinese figures and a small dog beside tables, the reverse with a lady beside a parrot perched on a hoop, 18cm high, incised line inside footrim below the handle (2)

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Provenance
John Alchin Collection

The same lady at a tea table appears on a vase in the British Museum, see Franklin Barrett, Worcester Porcelain and Lund's Bristol (1966), pl.11. A similar coffee pot and cover from the Zorensky Collection was sold by Bonhams, 22 February 2006, lot 6. A classic Worcester model of the mid-1750s.

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