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A very rare Worcester 'Dutch' jug, circa 1756-60
23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
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A very rare Worcester 'Dutch' jug, circa 1756-60
The decoration circa 1762-65, of large size, the globular body moulded with overlapping cabbage leaves, painted in kakiemon style with the 'Red Crabs' pattern of two crustaceans beneath a ferocious flying dragon, banded hedges and foliage around the scrolled handle, alternating with cabbage leaves picked out in green, pale yellow and puce, the cylindrical neck with scattered sprigs and a moulded border painted with a band of flowers and leaves, 27.8cm high
Footnotes
Only one other example of this rare jug appears to be recorded, formerly in the Rous Lench Collection sold by Christie's on 30 May 1990, lot 509 and latterly in the Sir Jeremy Lever Collection sold by Bonhams on 7 March 2007, lot 53, illustrated by H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period (1954), fig.850 and by Franklin A Barrett (1953), pl.28. The decoration is copied from early Meissen and it would appear that a Continental shape from the late 1750s was used and decorated a few years later. A rare bowl in this pattern, also decorated in the early 1760s on a shape from the previous decade, was in the Crane Collection sold by Bonhams on 31 March 2010 and is illustrated by John Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain (1993), p.275.