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Lot 58*

Two Worcester bowls, circa 1752-54 and 1756-58

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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Two Worcester bowls, circa 1752-54 and 1756-58

One painted in blue with the 'Willow Root' pattern (I.A.3), with a Long Eliza figure standing between two fences, a banana plant on one side and a willow tree growing from gnarled roots on the other, the reverse with a fisherman in a sampan, 12.8cm diam, workman's mark, incised triangle inside footrim, the other with a lobed rim, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Root' pattern (I.D.27), the trailing branches extending inside the rim, 13.5cm diam, workman's mark (2)

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Provenance
Watney Collection, Bonhams sale, 1 November 2000, lot 948
John Alchin Collection

Bowls are the only shape able to accommodate every element of the 'Willow Root', the earliest of the underglaze Worcester 'set' patterns.

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