Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 183
A good Worcester hexagonal creamboat, circa 1753-54
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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Jim Peake
Head of Department
Fergus Gambon
Director
A good Worcester hexagonal creamboat, circa 1753-54
Crisply moulded with a geranium leaf below the lip and a scrolled angular handle with elaborate terminals, the sides with scroll-moulded panels, one pencilled in black and coloured in yellow, brown, green and blue with a pagoda and two trees on a distant island, rockwork, prunus and other plants in the foreground, the reverse with a famille rose flower spray, Chinese emblems to the interior rim, 11.6cm long
Footnotes
Provenance
Bonhams, 18 May 2016, lot 336
With Robyn Robb
With Jupiter Antiques, 2019
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.355, fig.a
Exhibited
Albert Amor, Worcester Porcelain: The First Decade 1751-1761, 1981, no.18
Dreweatt Neate, 18th Century English Porcelain, 1996, no.60
Landscape decoration without prominent figures or birds is rarely found on enamelled hexagonal creamboats, and yet blue and white examples are plentiful from just a year or two later. Another hexagonal creamboat of the same pattern is illustrated by Simon Spero, Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain 1750-58: The A J Smith Collection, 2006, p.204, no.109. Compare also to the example sold by Bonhams on 7 June 2006, lot 161.