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Lot 47*

A Worcester two-handled sauceboat, circa 1755-57

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Worcester two-handled sauceboat, circa 1755-57

Of small size, the scroll handles with thumbrests, the sides moulded with garlands of oak leaves forming four panels, each finely painted with a European figure in a landscape, the inside rim and shell-moulded lips with puce scrolling borders, a delicate Chinese flower spray painted inside the base, 16.8cm long

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Provenance
Zorensky Collection, Bonhams sale, 16 March 2004, lot 41
John Alchin Collection

The Meissen-style painting in each of the panels is particularly fine and demonstrates careful consideration of the moulded decoration framing each vignette. A similar sauceboat is illustrated by Simon Spero, The A J Smith Collection (2006), no. 137.

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