A Worcester teapot, cover and stand, milk jug and cover and a single teabowl, circa 1775Of reeded 'French' shape, the covers with flower finials, painted with a version of the 'Hop Trellis' pattern with swags of berried foliage suspended between puce trelliswork bound by gilt ribbons, with turquoise scale borders and gilded rims, teapot 11.9cm high (6)Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's sale 16 November 1992, lots 121 and 122 Ralph Kenber CollectionThis decoration, loosely derived from Sèvres porcelain, is just one of many variations on the 'Hop Trellis' pattern produced at Worcester. Versions of the pattern also occurs on Chelsea-Derby porcelain of the 1770s, although on plain rather than fluted shapes.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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A Worcester coffee pot and cover, circa 1754-55Of 'Scratch Cross' type and with a characteristic greyish glaze, the baluster border supported by a spreading foot, the scrolled handle with thumbrest, painted in famille rose style with the 'Tea Ceremony' pattern, two Chinese figures and a small dog beside tables, the reverse with a lady beside a parrot perched on a hoop, 18cm high, incised line inside footrim below the handle (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThe same lady at a tea table appears on a vase in the British Museum, see Franklin Barrett, Worcester Porcelain and Lund's Bristol (1966), pl.11. A similar coffee pot and cover from the Zorensky Collection was sold by Bonhams, 22 February 2006, lot 6. A classic Worcester model of the mid-1750s.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester bottle vase, circa 1753-54Of hexagonal baluster or 'onion' form, delicately painted with a Chinese figure pointing to one side, wearing pink, blue and yellow costume, a fenced garden behind, the reverse with a flower spray, 11.7cm high,Footnotes:ProvenanceBillie Pain Collection, Bonhams sale, 26 November 2003, lot 114John Alchin CollectionA very similar vase is illustrated by Simon Spero, The A J Smith Collection (2006), p.182, pl.90. A comparison with the present lot reveals a remarkable consistency in the details of the pattern.Onion-shaped Bottle VasesThis delightful and popular shape is most likely derived from Chinese blanc de chine or Fujian white porcelain from the earlier Kangxi period. The shape is also known in Staffordshire white saltglaze. Worcester's onion bottles compare closely, in date, size and decoration, with a range of small white glass bottles with enamelling in bright colours, believed to have been made in South Staffordshire. Although the glass bottles are not octagonal, the chinoiserie figures and floral subjects are remarkably similar to early Worcester decoration and some of the same painters may have been responsible.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester bottle vase, circa 1753-54Of hexagonal baluster or 'onion' form, painted with a Chinese figure standing with arms crossed, wearing pink, blue and yellow robes, a fence behind painted with a distinctive pebbled pattern, the reverse with a flower spray, 12cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceBillie Pain Collection, Bonhams sale, 26 November 2003, lot 115Simon Spero Exhibition 2004, no.11John Alchin CollectionThis is one of the models from this brief period which underlines the likelihood that many of these pieces were conceived as ornaments rather than objects for practical use.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester dry mustard pot, circa 1753Of gentle baluster form, painted in famille verte style with a heron-like bird flanked by a willow tree and flowering plants, an insect in flight above, the reverse with a rock and another flying insect, 7.5cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionA similar example is illustrated by Simon Spero, The Klepser Collection (1984), p.25, no.8. Dry mustard was frequently used as a spice at this period, most probably in toddies and punch.Worcester's Strutting BirdsA most appropriate name was coined by an unknown collector or auction cataloguer to describe a curious species of bird painted in enamel colours on some of the earliest Worcester porcelain. Ultimately based on porcelain from the Orient, the comical birds are far removed from their Chinese origin and it seems more likely the painters responsible had learnt their trade decorating English delftware. Strutting birds are also seen on Bow porcelain of similar date and while we will never know which factory used them first, the Worcester versions are definitely the most amusing.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamjug, circa 1753Of pear shape with a sparrow beak spout, the double-scrolled handle with a delicate thumbrest, painted with a 'strutting bird' standing on one leg, the other slightly raised, flowering plants to either side and insects in flight above, 7.2cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition 1999, no.16John Alchin CollectionThe earliest pieces of polychrome decoration on Worcester porcelain exhibit a delicacy and subtlety of colour which combines beautifully with the cream-coloured porcelain, creating an entirely new style with influences from China, Meissen and Staffordshire. A more thinly potted version of the handle form is also found on cups, see lots 5-8. Only one example of this early model is recorded in underglaze blue.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester sauceboat, circa 1752-54Of flat-bottomed form, the scrolled handle with a leaf-moulded thumbrest, the moulded panels painted in bright famille rose colours with birds and insects, one bird standing by slender leaves, the other perched on a branch, the interior fully painted with trailing flower sprays and an insect inside the spout, 15.5cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin collectionAdapted from a Lund's Bristol form, this model was issued slightly before its underglaze blue counterpart.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamboat, circa 1754-55Of oval section, the angular handle with a scrolled thumbrest, ozier-moulded panels above the foot and below the flared and lobed rim, painted in famille rose colours with an exotic bird perched on fruit, the reverse with flowers, both panels flanked by crisply moulded grasses, flowers sprays painted around the interior rim, 10.7cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceZorensky Collection, Bonhams sale, 22 February 2006, lot 9Sir Jeremy Lever Collection, Bonhams sale, 7 March 2007, lot 11John Alchin CollectionThis is a particularly well moulded example of a rare form of creamboat. Coloured bird decoration is also very unusual on this form.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamboat, circa 1753-55Of lobed oval form with an everted and lobed rim, the angular handle with a scrolled thumbrest, delicately moulded panels on either side painted in famille rose style with Chinese figures and flowering plants, panels of fine basketweave above the foot and below the rim, the interior with floral sprays, 10.3cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin collectionA creamboat of similar shape and decoration is illustrated by Samuel M Clarke, Worcester Porcelain in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection (1987), pl.2.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester hexagonal creamboat, circa 1753-54With a lobed and everted rim and an angular handle with scrolled thumbrest, crisply moulded on both sides with scrolled panels painted in famille rose style, one with a Chinese figure pointing to the right, the other with a similar figure, two insects below the spout and flower spays within the interior, 10.5cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition 1996, no.25John Alchin CollectionThe same standing Chinese figure is found on a moulded creamboat in the Zorensky Collection. See Bonhams sale, 23 February 2005, lot 2.Hexagonal CreamboatsA staple product of Worcester's early years, the hexagonal-shaped creamboat originated at Limehouse and continued at the Lund's Bristol factory. Creamboats of this general form are surprisingly rare in English silver of the period, customers preferring porcelain to pour a costly mixture of cream and sugar on their deserts. The low creamboat shape probably corresponds to the '...pannel'd cream ewers' from the factory's London warehouse price list. Surviving examples show enormous variety in the mouldings used on early Worcester creamboats; the examples in this sale illustrating just how much even the geranium leaves below the spout can differ in form.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester hexagonal creamboat, circa 1753-54Of hexagonal form with an angular handle, a gently corrugated border just below the rim, moulded in high relief with sprigs of flowers carefully outlined in black and picked out in colours, crisply moulded birds and insects to either side left unadorned, a flower sprig and precious objects within the interior, 10.7cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition 1996, no.24Elizabeth Handley CollectionSimon Spero exhibition 2007, Ronald Melvin Collection, no.20John Alchin CollectionThe crispness of the moulded detail is accentuated by the decision of the decorator to leave the insect and bird sprigs in the white, possibly inspired by Chinese bland-de-chine via saltglaze stoneware. For a similar example from the Elizabeth Handley and Paul and Bunny Davies Collections, see Simon Spero's exhibition, 2013, no.17. A rare form of decoration.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester coffee can, circa 1751-52With a slightly spreading base, everted rim and plain loop handle, painted in colours with a variety of flowering plants trailing from purple and green rockwork, insects in flight on either side of the handle and a red tramline border just above the foot, 6.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceNorman Stretton Collection, Bonhams sale, 21 February 2001, lot 153Simon Spero exhibition, 2002, no.19John Alchin CollectionThis important can is one of the earliest recorded pieces of enamelled Worcester porcelain, manufactured following the partnership agreement of June 1751. Thrown rather than press-moulded, it can be distinguished from the other early polychrome products which follow. The decoration in Meissen 'indianische Blumen' style is also unlike other early pieces, the tramline border being particularly unusual. A coffee cup of the same date and pattern from the McKnight Melvin Collection was exhibited by Simon Spero in his 2005 exhibition, no.13 and again in 2007, no.1. One of the only other recorded pieces of this class, it exhibits the same simple and rather poorly formed handle.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamboat, circa 1754Of hexagonal form with a geranium leaf moulded under the spout, the angular handle with a scrolled thumbrest, painted with a long-tailed bird perched on a branch, the reverse with insects and a floral sprig, the panels with crisply moulded rococo borders of differing design, precious objects within the interior, 11cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis example is very similar to one from the R David Butti Collection, Bonhams sale, 10 May 2006, lot 21, illustrated in that catalogue alongside a factory waster with a different geranium leaf. The same bird panel is found on a fluted creamboat illustrated by Simon Spero, The A J Smith Collection (2006), p.162, fig.74. Compare also with lot 99 in this sale, a creamboat from the Kenber Collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester hexagonal creamboat, circa 1753Of hexagonal form with a geranium leaf moulded below the lip, the angular handle with a scrolled thumbrest, both sides delicately moulded with scrolled panels painted in famille verte style, one with bird by a low red fence, the other with flowering plants, an insect and flower sprays within the interior, 10.9cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition 1998, no.11John Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester coffee can, circa 1756-58Of cylindrical form with an everted rim and a very fine ribbed handle, the exterior moulded with scrolled panels reserved on a strap-fluted ground, painted in colours with the 'Staghunt' pattern, a formal puce border inside the rim, 5.7cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition 2006. no.26John Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamboat, circa 1753-55Of corrugated oval form with a flared and lobed rim, the angular handle with a scrolled thumbpiece, moulded on both sides with a quatrelobed panel reserved on a fine basketweave ground, painted in famille rose style with flowering plants beside panelled fences, floral sprigs within the interior and an insect on the spout, 10cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis early handle form is normally found on hexagonal creamboats, see lots 28-32. The variety of shapes and moulded details on early Worcester creamboats is without parallel. An example with a similar handle and basketweave ground is illustrated by Sandon and Spero, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.87, pl.35. The shape of the moulded panels differs, however.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester scallop shell pickle dish, circa 1753-54Of unusually large size and scallop shell form, painted in the centre with a sprig of flowers, the pencilled cross-hatched borders washed in green and reserving panels of half flowerheads, the enamels being particularly bright, 11.6cm high, painter's mark in red, incised cross markFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition 2003, no.30John Alchin CollectionThese dishes were issued in four sizes. The Worcester factory's London warehouse listed them in their price card of about 1755-56 as 'Scallop'd Shells, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th', although this may refer only to blue and white examples. This must be the largest and no further coloured examples appear to be recorded. The presence of a painter's mark and an incised cross is also most unusual. For an example of one of the more usual smaller sizes from the Zorensky Collection, see Bonhams sale, 16 March 2004, lot 10.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1753-54Of octagonal form, painted in a bright palette with bamboo growing behind a two-panelled fence, flowering plants and a banded hedge to the right, the saucer with an insect in flight above, saucer 11cm diam (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionTypically for Worcester, the design here mixes Chinese and Japanese motifs in a single pattern. Although coffee cups of this pattern of recorded, no matching teapots or jugs are known. Other teabowls and saucers were exhibited by Simon Spero exhibition 2010, no.20 and Albert Amor, The Cohen Collection, 1992, no.26.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Another Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1753-54Of octagonal form, painted in famille verte style with the same pattern as the previous lot, vases, precious objects and feathers alternate with panels of flowering plants, red cross-hatched borders inside the rims, saucer 10.7cm diam (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester teacup and saucer, circa 1755-56Thinly potted and crisply moulded with fine strap-fluting, reserving scrolled panels painted in bright enamels with flowers and insects, the borders pencilled in black with diaper and washed in bright green, reserving panels containing a formal iron red band, the cup with a delicate scrolled handle, saucer 11.8cm diam (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceFaith and Dewayne Perry CollectionSimon Spero exhibition 2009, no.25John Alchin CollectionPress-moulded tea services of this attractive form were introduced at Worcester circa 1754-55. Thinly potted and finely detailed, they must have appeared revolutionary at the time. The production of teacups at this early date is presumably inspired by Meissen and such vessels only are only rarely found in Worcester porcelain prior to the late 1750s when larger teacups were made. The enamels on this example are particularly bright.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester butterboat, circa 1754-55The exterior moulded with three tiers of overlapping leaves, the profiles of the upper leaves creating an irregular rim, a stalk handle at the side, the interior painted in colours with a central floral spray and four smaller sprigs below the rim, 8.1cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis form is rarely found with polychrome decoration and is of an earlier date than the more common blue and white leaf-moulded butterboats. See the example from the Zorensky Collection, Bonhams sale, 23 February 2005, lot 5.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester tankard, circa 1755-56With a gently spreading foot and a broad strap handle, painted in Kakiemon colours with a version of the 'Sir Joshua Reynolds' pattern, a long-tailed bird perched on a tall rock from which flowering branches grow to either side, 9.1cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin collectionThis is a particularly rare and early example of the pattern on Worcester porcelain. Although clearly Japanese in style, the precise origin of this pattern remains unclear. A possible source is illustrated by R L Hobson, Worcester Porcelain (1910), pl.XXXIV where a close-up of the painting on a Japanese vase is shown alongside two Worcester pieces which appear to follow it very closely. The present lot differs slightly from these, the tail feathers of the bird being smaller and less curvaceous.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester dessert dish, circa 1756Of vine leaf form with a serrated rim and elaborate stalk handle, the upper surface finely moulded with veining and painted in Kakiemon style with the 'Banded Hedge' pattern, a phoenix-like bird in flight above banded hedges and flowering plants, 17.4cm wideFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionFor further examples of the pattern from the Kenber Collection see lots 101 and 102 in this sale. A teapot stand of the same pattern was in the Zorensky Collection, see Bonhams sale, 16 March 2004, lot 59.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester two-handled sauceboat, circa 1755-57Of small size, the scroll handles with thumbrests, the sides moulded with garlands of oak leaves forming four panels, each finely painted with a European figure in a landscape, the inside rim and shell-moulded lips with puce scrolling borders, a delicate Chinese flower spray painted inside the base, 16.8cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceZorensky Collection, Bonhams sale, 16 March 2004, lot 41John Alchin CollectionThe Meissen-style painting in each of the panels is particularly fine and demonstrates careful consideration of the moulded decoration framing each vignette. A similar sauceboat is illustrated by Simon Spero, The A J Smith Collection (2006), no. 137.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester wallpocket, circa 1754-56Of spirally moulded form, the back pierced for suspension, painted in 'indianische Blumen' style with sprays and sprigs of flowers and a butterfly, bands of yellow and iron red scrolls framing the moulded floral border below the rim, 21.5cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero Exhibition 1995, no.24John Alchin CollectionThis floral decoration is loosely in Chinese style but owes more to the formal painting seen on early Meissen porcelain. A pair of cornucopias with related decoration is illustrated by Sandon and Spero, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.128, pl.101.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester teapot and cover, circa 1760-65Of globular form with a pointed finial, painted in Chinese style with the 'Pu Tai' pattern, the corpulent monk seated by a rock with two attendants before him, within gilded arrowhead borders, 14.8cm high, (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester coffee cup, circa 1752-53Of deep U shape with a slightly everted rim, the double scrolled handle with a sharply pointed thumbrest, painted in kakiemon style with the 'Banded Hedge' pattern of two flowering branches issuing from three banded hedges, a phoenix-like bird in flight to one side, 6.4cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceGwen and Ronald McKnight Melvin Collection, Simon Spero exhibition 2007, no.28John Alchin CollectionThis is a particularly early version of the 'Banded Hedge' pattern, lacking the overglaze blue included in pieces of slightly later date, see lots 46, 101 and 102 in this sale. Presumably, the blue proved difficult to fire. The fine potting and unusually crisp handle confirm the early date. For a similar example from the R David Butti Collection, see Bonhams sale, 10 May 2006, lot 16.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester coffee cup, circa 1754-56Of 'Scratch Cross' type with a grooved handle, painted with a version of the 'Snake in a Basket' pattern of a 'Long Eliza' figure holding a fan, a 'ruyi' sceptre in a basket beside a willow tree beside her, 6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionAlthough the basic elements of the design are the same, there are significant differences in the style of painting of this pattern on this cup when compared to other examples in this sale, see lots 15-18. Most notable is the replacement of the pine tree with a willow tree, its branches hanging down from the rim.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester sucrier and cover, circa 1756-57Of plain circular form. the low domed cover with a bud finial, painted in a vibrant palette with a Chinese figure holding a fan, a small boy to the left seated by a red zig-zag fence, two vase and a table to the right, 11cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceGwen and Ronald McKnight Melvin Collection, Simon Spero Exhibition 2007, no.17John Alchin CollectionThis lot belongs to a group of Worcester porcelains painted with Chinese figures in a distinct bright palette, the foreground washed in lime green and flocks of birds used to disguise flaws in the porcelain. Other pieces in the group include a bowl from the Crane Collection, Bonhams sale, 31 March 2010, lot 91 and a splendid mug from the Henry Sandon and R David Butti Collections, Bonhams sale 10 May 2006, lot 24. It is possible that this group was painted by a single hand working outside of the factory. Sucriers of this period are scarce.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester coffee cup and a saucer, circa 1762-65The cup of bell shape with a wishbone handle, the saucer with a lobed rim, enamelled with the 'Chinese Musicians' pattern of individual famille rose figures, the green diaper border reserving stylised flowerheads, saucer 11.7cm diam (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionFor other examples of this pattern in the Kenber Collection see lots 153-155 in this sale.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester milk jug and a rare coffee cup, circa 1765The jug with a sparrow beak spout, painted in Chinese style with formal coloured sprigs, a gilt dagger border inside the rim, 8.6cm high, the U-shaped coffee cup with a group of four Chinese figures and a buffalo, a red and gold crowfoot border inside the rim, 6.2cm high (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester bottle vase, circa 1754-55Of hexagonal baluster or 'onion' form, printed in outline and enamelled in bright colours with a Chinese mother and child standing before a vase, the mother holding a wand, a seated figure holding a fan to the reverse, insects in flight to either side, a formal iron red border painted below the rim, 11.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition 1996, no.28John Alchin CollectionThe pattern is one of a small number of prints created as an outline for hand-painted decoration. This seems to have been designed specifically for this shape of small vase as the pattern has not been noted on any other shaped pieces. Some twelve polychrome designs are recorded on this short-lived model.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Another Worcester bottle vase, circa 1754-55Of hexagonal baluster form and identical in decoration to the previous lot, 11.9cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero exhibition 2005, no.19John Alchin CollectionIllustrated by John Sandon, Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain (1993), col. pl.87.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Two Worcester bowls, circa 1752-54 and 1756-58One painted in blue with the 'Willow Root' pattern (I.A.3), with a Long Eliza figure standing between two fences, a banana plant on one side and a willow tree growing from gnarled roots on the other, the reverse with a fisherman in a sampan, 12.8cm diam, workman's mark, incised triangle inside footrim, the other with a lobed rim, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Root' pattern (I.D.27), the trailing branches extending inside the rim, 13.5cm diam, workman's mark (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceWatney Collection, Bonhams sale, 1 November 2000, lot 948John Alchin CollectionBowls are the only shape able to accommodate every element of the 'Willow Root', the earliest of the underglaze Worcester 'set' patterns.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester bowl, circa 1756-58Of shallow conical form, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Root' pattern (I.D.27), the trailing branches continued inside the bowl, 10.3cm diam, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceWatney Collection, Bonhams sale, 1 November 2000, lot 949John Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A fine Worcester coffee cup, circa 1752-53,Of reeded and slightly flared form, the double-scroll handle with a curled thumbrest, the quatrelobed rim mirrored by the shaped footrim, painted in vibrant colours in Chinese style with a long-tailed bird perched on a trailing blue branch bearing a variety of flowers and leaves, 6.6cm highFootnotes:ProvenanceThe First Decade, Albert Amor exhibition 1981, no.11Cohen Collection, Albert Amor exhibition 1992, no.34Simon Spero exhibition 2015, no.27John Alchin CollectionA cup of the same shape and pattern but with a different handle is illustrated by Simon Spero, The A J Smith Collection (2006), p.161, no.63 and another by Simon Spero, The Klepser Collection (1984), p.28, no.14. The spontaneity of the decoration and rich famille verte palette combine with an English form to create what must have been a great novelty to 18th century eyes. Such cups were not sold with saucers and may have been intended as cabinet pieces. This reeded form is particularly rare.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester mug, circa 1758-60Of cylindrical from with a slightly spreading foot and grooved loop handle, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Root' pattern (I.D.27), the trailing branches extending inside the rim, 8.8cm high, workman's mark below handleFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester teapot and cover, circa 1754-55The globular form moulded with distinctive lobes, the cover with a turned finial, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Root' pattern (I.D.27), a trailing branch extending from the neck rim and across the cover, 12cm high, workman's mark (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceMargaret Ollier Collection, Simon Spero Exhibition, 2001, no.49John Alchin CollectionThe Prunus Root PatternOne of Worcester's most popular early patterns, Prunus Root is presumed to be copied directly from a Chinese export porcelain source, but if this is the case, any specimen of the original Chinese prototype has proved to be particularly elusive. Introduced in the early 1750s, this pattern was used mostly on teawares, both plain and fluted. Only a few other factories dabbled with the pattern, and the design is not known on delftware, but at Worcester is was enduring, its use spanning more than thirty years.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester teapot and cover, circa 1757-60Of 'Warmstry Fluted' form with a pointed finial, with a grooved loop handle, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Root' pattern (I.D.27), 13.8cm high, workman's mark (2)Footnotes:ProvenancePares Collection, no.36John Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare Worcester small mug, circa 1755-56Of silver shape and attractive small size, with a grooved and rounded base, painted in blue with the 'Warbler' pattern(I.C.4), the bird perched on a mound, flowering branches issuing from stylised rockwork to the reverse, the interior rim with a diaper and flowerhead border, 7.7cm high, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceZorensky Collection, Simon Spero exhibition, 2003, no.48John Alchin CollectionIllustrated by John Sandon, Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain (1993), p.358, and by Sandon and Spero, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.418, no.555. The underside of this mug is flat and unglazed, which is a rare feature on Worcester porcelain. This shape was in production for a very limited period. The model was inspired by a slightly earlier silver form.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester coffee can, circa 1755-58Of attractive small size, the waisted cylindrical form with a grooved loop handle, painted in shades of blue with the 'Cormorant' pattern (I.B.28), the bird perched upon pierced rockwork, a fisherman standing in a sampan nearby, the reverse with a flowering peony plant, 5.9cm high, workman's mark below handle, two incised lines inside footrim, one under the handleFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionA classic design of the 1754-56 period associated with the 'Scratch Cross' class of wares, loosely derived from tin-glazed earthenwares.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester mug, circa 1756-58Of bell shape with a broad grooved strap handle, painted in blue with the 'Zig-Zag Fence' pattern (I.D.12), the fence surrounded by trailing flowering plants, below a cross-hatched band border, 9.3cm high, single incised line inside footrimFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamboat, circa 1758-60Oval with moulded floral and foliate panels, the double scroll handle with an upper thumbrest, painted in blue with the 'Bare Tree Pagoda' pattern (I.D.4), comprising a tree next to a small pavilion, the rim with patterned diaper panels, 10.7cm long, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester potting pot, circa 1754-56Of large size, the circular form with flared sides and a thickened rim, painted in blue with the 'Plantation' pattern (I.D.11), a single sprig in the interior and a narrow blue line at the rim, 15.3cm diam, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester stand for a finger bowl, circa 1756-8With a shaped rim, painted in blue with the 'Cormorant' pattern (I.B.28), the bird perched on rockwork to the left, a fisherman to the centre standing beneath a large flowering plant, 14.2cm diam, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester sauceboat or large creamboat, circa 1755-57Of lobed form moulded on both sides with shaped panels, the angular handle with a pronounced thumbrest, painted in underglaze blue with the 'Boatman' pattern (I.B.22B), the figure fishing beneath a willow tree, a pagoda to the reverse, the interior rim with tailing flowers, 14.6cm long, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionOne of the rarer early Worcester sauceboat models.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester 'Wigornia' creamboat, circa 1753-55Of hexagonal form with an ornate scroll handle, moulded in relief with a Chinese landscape left in the white, including pavilions and terraced fenced gardens below birds in flight, the interior rim painted in blue with floral sprays and a diaper border to the lip, 11.1cm long, workman's mark to interiorFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis corresponds to Moulding D according to Paul Riley, A review of 'Wigornia' cream jugs, ECC Trans., Vol.13, pt.3, pp.166-169.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester sauceboat or large creamboat, circa 1755-57Moulded with shaped panels, the angular handle with a pronounced thumbrest, painted in blue with the 'Boatman' pattern (I.B.22B), the figure fishing beneath a willow tree, a pagoda to the reverse, the interior rim with tailing flowers, 15.3cm longFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionSee Ray Jones, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain (2018), p.521 for a slightly earlier polychrome version of this form.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester sauceboat, circa 1755-58Of fluted silver shape on a high foot, the handle with a pronounced thumbrest, painted in blue with the 'Fisherman on a Towering Rock' pattern (I.B.13), 21.8cm long, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionSauceboats and CreamboatsImported Chinese export porcelain gave early Worcester its inspiration, but it was also its main competition. In one important area, though, Worcester excelled. British customers wanted porcelain copies of silver sauceboats and creamboats, the most desirable luxury items. While brilliant in so many other ways, the Chinese never mastered the techniques of casting and moulding. Worcester seized the opportunity to make a product that was better than anything available from China. The fact that they made so many different models and moulds shows how far they succeeded.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamboat or small sauceboat, circa 1760-63Of fluted form, the square-sectioned handle with a curled thumbrest and moulded detail around the lower terminal, painted in blue with a variant of the 'Treehouse' pattern (I.B.12) of a pagoda flanked by a willow tree and rocks, a fisherman to the left, the reverse with a hut behind rockwork, the interior rim with diaper panels and floral sprays, 11.4cm long, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThe pattern and this shape in this small size are particularly rare. A very similar example from the Zorensky Collection was sold by Bonhams 16 March 2004, lot 298.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamboat, circa 1754-56Of flared hexagonal shape, the square-sectioned handle with a curled thumbrest, the sides moulded with scrollwork cartouches painted in blue with a version of the 'Sinking Boat Fisherman' pattern (I.B.20), a fisherman in a sampan to one side and a man on a bridge to the other, the interior rim painted with flowers and an insect, 11.3cm long, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionA very similar creamboat from the Godden Reference Collection was sold by Bonhams on 1 May 2013, lot 92.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A small Worcester teapot and cover, circa 1757-60Of globular form and attractive small size, painted in blue with the 'Warbler' pattern (I.C.4), the rim and cover with diaper borders reserved with floral panels, 8.5cm high, workmen's marks (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceSimon Spero, The Simpson Collection of Eighteenth Century English Blue and White Miniature Porcelain, 2003, no.21John Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester creamjug and a Worcester coffee cup, circa 1755-58The jug of plain pear shape with a grooved handle, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Fence' pattern (I.D.16), 7.9cm high, workman's mark, the cup of bell shape with a wishbone handle, painted in blue with the 'Gazebo' pattern (I.B.7), the precariously positioned structure beside a tree and small hut, the reverse with a figure in a sampan, 6.3cm high, workman's mark (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1756-58Of octagonal form, painted in blue with the 'Romantic Rocks' pattern (I.B.8), a traveller walking up a steeply angled promontory, a small pavilion in the shade of the rocks and a man in a boat in the foreground, within diaper borders, saucer 11.4cm diam, workmen's marks (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThe pattern is taken from a drawing by Jean Pillement which appears in 'The Ladies' Amusement'. A similar teabowl and saucer from the Zorensky Collection was sold by Bonhams on 22 February 2006, lot 289.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1757-60Painted in blue with the 'Walk in the Garden' pattern (I.A.17), the Chinese lady with a boy in attendance, the rims with diaper and flowerhead borders, saucer 12cm diam, workmen's marks (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester teabowl and saucer, circa 1756-58Of thinly potted strap-fluted form, the crisply moulded panels painted in blue with the 'Fisherman and Willow Pavilion' pattern (I.B.21), the Chinese landscape vignettes flanked by smaller panels of insects in flight, saucer 11.9cm diam, workman's mark to teabowl (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester mug, circa 1756-58Of bell shape with a broad grooved loop handle, painted in blue with the 'Prunus Fence' pattern (I.D.16), the flowering branches issuing from rockwork, an insect in flight amongst the blooms, 8.6cm high, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Worcester coffee can, circa 1756-58Of attractive small size with a slightly spreading foot and a grooved loop handle, painted in blue with a variant of the 'Prunus Fence' pattern (I.D.16), 6.2cm high, workman's markFootnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A rare pair of Bow 'scale blue' vases, circa 1770Of beaker form with gently everted rims, painted on both sides with panels of 'agitated' birds within gilded rococo borders, reserved on a deep scale blue ground, the turned feet gilt with a diaper band, 17.7cm high, 'A' marks in blue (2)Footnotes:ProvenanceRous Lench Collection, Christie's sale, 30 May 1990, lot 380 (part)John Alchin CollectionBird decoration by this hand also occurs on Worcester and Champion's Bristol porcelain, perhaps suggesting an itinerant painter.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Collection of Worcester 'scale blue' teawares, circa 1770Each item painted with panels of fancy birds and insects edged with gilt scrollwork and reserved on scale blue grounds, comprising a sucrier and cover with a flower finial, a milk jug with sparrow beak spout, a saucer dish, three teacups and two saucers, the saucer dish 18.8cm diam, square marks (6)Footnotes:ProvenanceJohn Alchin CollectionThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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