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Lot 22*

A Worcester bottle vase, circa 1753-54

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,211.25 inc. premium

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A Worcester bottle vase, circa 1753-54

Of hexagonal baluster or 'onion' form, painted with a Chinese figure standing with arms crossed, wearing pink, blue and yellow robes, a fence behind painted with a distinctive pebbled pattern, the reverse with a flower spray, 12cm high

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Provenance
Billie Pain Collection, Bonhams sale, 26 November 2003, lot 115
Simon Spero Exhibition 2004, no.11
John Alchin Collection

This is one of the models from this brief period which underlines the likelihood that many of these pieces were conceived as ornaments rather than objects for practical use.

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