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A Rare Worcester octagonal bowl, circa 1754-55
15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£250 - £300
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A Rare Worcester octagonal bowl, circa 1754-55
Of flared form, printed in outline and hand-coloured with the 'Red Bull' pattern, the interior with a flower sprig and a diaper border reserving floral panels below the rim, 11.2cm diam
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Provenance
John Alchin Collection
For further examples and information on the Red Bull pattern see lots 163-165 in this sale.
Early Coloured-In Prints
Transfer printing was almost certainly used on English enamel a couple of years before the technique was perfected at Worcester and some early printed enamel boxes and plaques were washed over in colours. To Worcester, though, we must give credit to the development of outline printing, as this technique was not apparently used on enamels at Battersea or Birmingham. The outlines of the printed designs are coarse and heavy, leaving blocks of plain colour that were filled in by painters at the Worcester factory. First used around 1753-55, the technique was reintroduced in the 1760s and 70s.