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Lot 406

A Worcester plate and teapot and cover, circa 1768 and 1764

1 December 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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A Worcester plate and teapot and cover, circa 1768 and 1764

The plate printed in black with 'Milking Scene no. 1', depicting a gentleman leaning against a tree talking to a milkmaid milking a cow, finely coloured by hand within a puce scrolled border, 18cm diam, the teapot and cover printed in puce with 'Ruin by the Cliff', the reverse with 'Two Bridges', also finely coloured by hand, 14cm high (3)

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Provenance
Zorensky Collection

Illustrated by Simon Spero and John Sandon, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.373. The print on the plate, by Robert Hancock, derives from 'A View of Woobourn In Surry, the seat of Philip Southcote, Esqr.', a print published by Luke Sullivan in 1759. See Joe Handley '18th Century English Transfer-Printed Porcelain', no.2.24, pp.70-1. 'The Two Bridges' print derives from an engraving by F Vivares after Patel, see Handley, op cit, p.177. For the other print see no.5.9, p.152.

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