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Click here to subscribeA Worcester scallop edged plate c.1765, decorated in the Kakiemon palette with an unusual design of three panels of Oriental flowers between three radiating bands of coral red with differing gilt designs, 20cm. Cf. H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, p.244, no.842 for a cup and saucer in the same pattern. Also, The Albrecht Collection, Albert Amor Ltd., 1988, Item 62. Paper label for the J Clayton Spears Collection.
A group of Worcester and Caughley blue and white porcelains c.1755-75, including a teapot and cover and a jug and cover painted with the Mansfield pattern, and two tea canisters and covers, a large jug, a slop bowl, a small bowl, and a sucrier and cover printed with the Three Flowers pattern, some damages, 16cm max. (13)
A Worcester dessert dish c.1780, of kidney shape, painted in polychrome enamels with a peacock and other fancy birds within an osier-moulded and gilt dentil rim, and a Worcester cup and saucer painted with floral vignettes within a blue and gilt shaped rim, open crescent marks, some faults, 26cm max. (3)
A small Worcester teapot and cover c.1760-65, the compact globular form painted in polychrome enamels with Chinese figures and an oxen standing beneath a tree, and a Worcester sparrowbeak milk jug painted in the same hand with three Chinese figures in a garden setting, 15.7cm max. (3) The jug with a paper label for the Alixe W. McCart Collection, no.72.
A Worcester sucrier and cover c.1775, of Warmstry fluted form, painted with a Japan pattern of wide panels of Kakiemon foliage and narrow mons on a blue ground, square seal mark, and a fluted slop bowl painted with the Two Quail pattern, a little chipping, a crack to the bowl, 15.2cm max. (3)
A large and unusual Worcester moulded sauceboat c.1753-55, of silver shape, two differently moulded panels to the exterior painted in polychrome enamels with a Long Eliza figure standing beside pine trees with pagodas beyond, the interior decorated with flowering branches and auspicious objects, minor rim faults, 19.4cm. Cf. Woolley and Wallis, The Raymond Dennis Collection, 25th February 2014, lot 57 for a similar sauceboat.
Three Worcester milk or cream jugs c.1760-75, one of Low Chelsea Ewer shape and painted with European flower sprays, one of squat barrel form and decorated with the Harvest Bug pattern, the last sparrowbeak with polychrome floral decoration, a Worcester coffee cup with flower sprays, and a Chelsea-Derby coffee cup with green and gilt flower sprays, together with a Worcester dessert plate with a deep blue border, various marks, the ewer broken and restuck, one cup cracked, 18.9cm max. (6)
A Chamberlain's Worcester jug c.1815, painted with an octagonal panel containing a view of the bridge at Worcester, reserved on a salmon pink vermicelli ground, a Grainger's Worcester taperstick painted with flowers on a pale yellow ground, and a Spode taperstick similarly decorated on a dark green ground, some restoration to the jug, 16.2cm max. (3) The tapersticks with paper labels for D M & P Manheim.
A Flight Barr & Barr miniature vase c.1820, the flared shape painted with a panel of a thatched cottage with a smoking chimney, reserved on a pink ground and raised on a square base, titled to the underside 'Cottage in Glamorganshire', and a Chamberlain's Worcester small spill vase painted with a view of the city on a puce ground, 7.5cm max. (2)
A rare Worcester plate c.1765, after Meissen, painted in Kakiemon type colours with two birds perched on a purple-stemmed branch of flowering chrysanthemum, small scattered sprigs, a restored rim crack, 22.5cm. Cf. Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, p.85, fig 332 for the Meissen original of this design. Also, H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain, pl.22, fig.449 for the Worcester example.
A Worcester blue and white strap-moulded sauceboat c.1754, painted with the Moored Boat pattern, one side with a panel containing a figure fishing from a boat, the reverse with a fisherman on a bank beside his boat, the interior with Oriental flower sprays, workman's mark, a small rim chip, 18cm. Paper label for the Alixe W. McCart Collection, no. 9.
A small collection of Worcester blue and white porcelains c.1758-70, including a potted meat pot painted in the Leaning Rock Fisherman within moulded panels, a teapot and cover in the Waiting Chinaman pattern, a creamboat in the Two-Porter Landscape pattern, and a sparrowbeak milk jug in the Rock Strata Island pattern, some damages, 19.5cm max. (5)
A Worcester blue and white two-handled sauceboat c.1755-60, painted to the interior with the Two-Handled Sauceboat Landscape, with two boats beside small pagodas on rock strata, the exterior with further landscape vignettes within crisply moulded leafy borders, workman's mark, a tiny rim chip, 19.4cm across.
A Worcester blue and white basin c.1770, the round body with everted rim, painted to the interior with the Willow Bridge Fisherman pattern, the rim with four vignettes of birds amidst flowers, joined by diaper bands, the exterior decorated with loose flower sprays, open crescent mark, 27.2cm dia.
A group of Worcester porcelains c.1765-70, including a slop bowl painted with polychrome flower sprays beneath a shaped green border edged in gilt, a jug and cover decorated in an allover apple green glaze, and a coffee cup and saucer decorated in a turquoise glaze, blue crossed swords and 9 marks to the bowl and saucer, some wear, 16.3cm max. (5) The saucer with a paper label for D M & P Manheim.
A small group of Worcester blue-scale porcelains c.1770, including a hexagonal teapot stand decorated in the Rich Kakiemon pattern with panels of chrysanthemum, a tall cylindrical mug, a milk jug and a coffee cup and saucer, all similarly decorated in Japan patterns with a simpler version of shaped panels with flowering Kakiemon sprays on a blue-scale ground, square seal and open crescent marks, some damages and repairs, 15cm max. (5)
A Worcester reeded coffee cup c.1753-55, the narrow ribbed form with a flared, lobed rim, painted in the famille verte palette with small sprigs beneath a floral rim, and a fluted Derby coffee cup painted with butterflies in flight around a spray of orange prunus, some damages and repairs, 6.2cm max. (2)
A Worcester cider jug c.1753-54, of Scratch Cross type, painted in polychrome enamels with a Chinese figure seated at a long table beneath a bird perched on a scrolled hoop, the other side with two tall attendants holding fans, incised line inside the footrim, a long restored crack, 18.5cm. Cf. Zorka Hodgson, The Origins of some Chinese Designs used on Early Worcester, ECC Trans. Vol 12, Part 3, pl 114 c and d, where a print by Chen Hongshou (1598-1652), titled 'Parrot on a Perch' is also illustrated and which may have been an inspiration for Chinese porcelain decorators.
A Worcester slop bowl c.1765-70, decorated outside of the factory, possibly in the atelier of James Giles, with a Japan pattern of single figures with birds and panels of famille rose flowers alternating with bands of chrysanthemum mon on an orange red ground, 14.8cm dia. Cf. Stephen Hanscombe, James Giles China and Glass Painter, no.95 for a near identical bowl in the Ashmolean Museum.
A Chamberlain's Worcester part armorial dessert service c.1800, decorated with the crest of an eagle holding an arrow in its beak, within gilt foliate scroll borders, iron red script marks. Comprising: two ice pails with a choice of two covers for each, two sauce tureens and covers, four square dishes, four shell-shaped dishes, two kidney-shaped dishes, a quatrefoil dish, a tazza and twenty plates. (42)
A Worcester teacup and saucer c.1780-85, the fluted forms painted with the Royal Wedding pattern of three differing floral swags around a turquoise caillouté band, open crescent marks, 13.6cm. (2) The pattern was so named when a service of this type was presented by the Borough of Cheltenham to HRH Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on their wedding in 1948.
A rare Worcester blue and white basket c.1762, the circular form painted to the interior with the Anemone and Bellflower Spray pattern, the interior walls with bands of flowerheads and leaves, the exterior applied with flowerheads, open crescent mark, a short rim crack, 16.7cm dia. Cf. Branyan, French and Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790, I.E.24A.
A Worcester tea canister and cover c.1770, of ovoid form, decorated with sprays of spotted fruit, and with small scattered insects, the shoulders with shaped panels of apple green ground, and another Worcester tea canister painted with dry blue flower sprays, one cover lacking, the other restored, 15.5cm max. (3)
A very rare Worcester early yellow ground potting pot and stand c.1754, the oval forms with basket moulding washed with a pale yellow ground and painted with flower sprays and scattered insects, the stand and basket's interior painted in the Kakiemon palette with peony, bamboo and chrysanthemum branches issuing from banded hedges, 17.3cm. (2) Provenance: The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain Part III, Bonhams, 22nd February 2006, lot 7. The stand with a paper label for the Collection of Nina Weil, the pot with a label for the B and V Lake Collection. Illustrated: Simon Spero and John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, no. 49 (the stand only). This is the earliest use of a coloured ground by the Worcester factory, and the evident problems they had in controlling the firing is doubtless the reason why examples are so rare today. The combination of the yellow ground with the Kakiemon decoration is likely to have been copied direct from Meissen rather than from Japanese originals. The shape is described in the price list of Worcester's London warehouse, circa 1754-56, as 'Potting pots & Covers, White Oval basket work' priced at 2 shillings and sixpence each.
A Worcester bell-shaped mug c.1756-58, finely decorated in the Kakiemon palette with the Two Quail pattern, the portly pair with a large flowering prunus tree behind and further flowers before, a small restored rim chip, 11.8cm. Cf. Woolley and Wallis, The Raymond Dennis Collection, 25th February 2014, lot 75 for a slightly smaller example.
Two Worcester sparrowbeak jugs and two mugs c.1760-70, variously decorated with Chinese figures chasing butterflies, holding flowers, and at various pursuits in garden settings, and a Worcester slop bowl similarly painted with four Chinese figures, damages to some, 16cm max. (5) Cf. Bonhams, The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain Part I, 16th March 2004, lot 60 for an identical cylindrical mug.
Two Worcester milk jugs c.1760 and c.1770, the earlier and larger painted in polychrome enamels with a bare-chested Chinese figure seated on a low rock, the reverse with a small boy and two ladies, the other jug with a shaped rim, pencilled with two quail between famille rose flowers, a star crack to the latter, 10.5cm max. (2)
A rare and early Worcester cream jug c.1752-53, of fluted baluster form with delicate and elaborately scrolled handle, painted in a simple polychrome palette with tall stems of flowers and wispy grasses, rim cracks, 8.5cm. Cf. John Sandon and Simon Spero, The Zorensky Collection, p.67 for a coffee pot in the same pattern.
A Grainger's Worcester reticulated vase with cover and stand date code for 1901, elaborately pierced with a continuous foliate design decorated in green and peach gilt lustre, the stand with a trefoil design and perhaps associated, and another Grainger's vase and cover, date code for 1897, decorated with a gilt prunus spray, raised on a reticulated base, the cover similarly pierced, some restoration, 34.7cm max. (5)
A Locke & Co Worcester hand-painted blush ivory tea serviceComprising teapot, sugar bowl, milk jug, four cups, four saucers, each decorated with fruit and foliage inside gilt and blue borders, factory marks to base CONDITION REPORT: All items are handpaintedSaucers one with small chip to bottom approx 0.3cm in sizeGilt on saucers where cup sits show signs of wear and scuffingAll teacups and saucers show scratching to the ivory groundTeapot has no structural problems, minor scratching to ground and wear to gilt
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