Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 188
A Worcester beaker vase, circa 1756-58
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,500 - £3,500
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Jim Peake
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Fergus Gambon
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A Worcester beaker vase, circa 1756-58
With a shallow inverted baluster shaped body beneath a wide trumpet shaped neck, painted in the manner of James Rogers with a version of the 'Mobbing Birds' pattern, in subtle, muted colours, three wading birds by the water's edge, six birds in flight above and two more to the reverse, 16cm high
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Provenance
Anthony W Tuke Collection
P H Siddons Collection
Literature
White, Mary, Beasts at the Whites' House, Vol.1, 2020, p.201
A distinctive painting style featuring birds in European landscapes has been named after the celebrated mug in the British Museum signed 'I Rogers Pinxit 1757' (inv. no.1959,1103.1). It is clear that there are a number of hands at work in this style of painting at Worcester, see John Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, 1993, pp.290 and 292, col. pl.70 for a discussion of pieces attributed to I Rogers and the 'Mobbing birds' pattern. Many of the ornithological designs were based on prints, some after drawings by C Fenn and engraved by Robert Hancock, which were published in The Ladies' Amusement and elsewhere. It is likely Worcester copied their bird decoration, and many of the shapes, from Chelsea prototypes that were themselves copied from Meissen.