An exceptional Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1752-53
Of twelve-sided form with concave fluting, finely pencilled in black with a Chinese river landscape picked out in a bright palette of pale yellow, purple, blue, red and green, a figure walking across and island in the foreground, rockwork and a small hut on stilts behind him, a boat and island in the distance, a formal border of scrolls and flowerheads inside the rims, saucer 11.5cm diam (2)
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