Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 181
A Worcester teabowl and saucer and a coffee cup, circa 1753-55
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £2,500
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Jim Peake
Head of Department
Fergus Gambon
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A Worcester teabowl and saucer and a coffee cup, circa 1753-55
Of octagonal form, the cup with scrolled handle and thumbrest, painted in famille verte style with garden scenes, an almost continuous frieze of varied flowering plants among hollow rocks with flying insects around, the border with alternating panels of diaper and half flowerheads, saucer 10.9cm wide (2)
Footnotes
Literature
White, Mary, Drinking at the Whites' House, Vol.2, 2021, p.350, fig.a
Because of the bright colours, this striking pattern has been described as in Meissen style, but more likely Worcester copied panelled decoration on Chinese famille verte porcelain of the Kangxi period.
For a similar teabowl and saucer and other shapes decorated in the pattern, see Simon Spero, Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain 1750-58: The A J Smith Collection, 2006, pp.208-10, figs.113-15. See also the teabowl and saucer from the Zorka Hodgson Collection sold by Bonhams on 10 September 2008, lot 67.