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This decoration is extremely rare on Worcester. One other small Worcester bowl with related decoration featuring a windmill as the primary subject was in the Beechwood Collection exhibited by Simon Spero, 2016 exhibition, no.37. The treatment of the underglaze painting is similar to the celebrated 'Burrell Bowl' sold by Bonhams as part of the Zorka Hodgson Collection on 10 September 2008, lot 60, which is the only other piece of Worcester blue and white from this period recorded with a European landscape. All three bowls feature sketchily painted decoration reminiscent of delftware, with excessive use of shading and trees with distinctive foliage. The appearance is similar to some blue and white porcelain of similar date produced at Vauxhall and some Liverpool factories and it is possible that such pieces were painted by itinerant delftware painters.