FINE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
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A Fine First Period Dr. Wall Worcester Mug, of slightly waisted
cylindrical form, with applied strap handle, printed from an adapted print
by Robert Hancock after a design by Jean Pillement and engraved by
P.C.Canot, in a fine light tone of underglaze blue with ‘La Peche’ and
‘La Promenade Chinois’, showing a lady in oriental robes casting her
rod into a pool whilst a gentleman looks on from an arbour to one side,
the reverse showing a lady walking holding a parasol and beside her a
small child, both with top knots, a bird flies up on a fence to one side.
Circa
1765-70
Height:
41⁄4 ins (11 cms)
Mark:
printed hatched crescent mark to the underside of the base of the mug.
Private
English Collection
The
two prints always occur together and therefore should be regarded as a
single pattern. The designs were first published in ‘Le Livres Chinoise’
after designs by Pillement but engraved by Canot in 1758. The adapted form
used at
39
A Fine Early Worcester Pedestal Sauceboat, the oval form moulded on either
side with scrolled cartouches, painted in underglaze blue with the
‘Sinking Boat Fisherman’ pattern, the interior with a further Chinese
riverscene and border decoration of hatched diaper, leaves and flowering
prunus.
Circa
1755
Length:
6 ins (15 cms)
Mark:
Workman’s mark in underglaze blue.
The
smallest of three sizes of Pedestal Sauceboat. Examples of this pattern
vary enormously in quality and the arrangement of the details, this
example is a particularly fine rendering. The pattern is found, as a rule,
only on pedestal sauceboats although there is a recording of just one
example of a hexagonal creamboat which also bears the pattern.
40
A very fine Bow Octagonal Plate, painted in underglaze blue in Chinese
style with an oriental man wearing flowing
robes
and hat, carrying a staff of office, followed by a boy bearing scrolls
beside a tree and rocks, enclosed within a wavy solid blue border.
Circa
1755.
Diameter:
9 ins (22.7 cms)
Mark:
numeral 6 in the footrim.
The
‘Image’ or ‘Golfer and Caddy’ pattern.
41
A Fine First Period Dr. Wall Worcester Teabowl and Saucer , moulded in
crisp low relief with a band of scrolling chrysanthemum, the centre
painted in underglaze blue with an open blown chrysanthemum bloom, the
border painted with a formal lambrequin design.
Circa
1762-65
Marks: open crescent marks to the underside of both pieces
Private
English Collection
One
of the most elegant combinations of moulding and painting creating a very
rare successful pattern.
42
A First Period Dr. Wall Worcester cylindrical mug, of straight sided form
with strap handle printed in underglaze blue with the third version of the
‘Parrot Pecking Fruit’ pattern showing the parrot perched in a branch
of the gnarled tree, leaning down and about to peck some quinces which lie
on the ground beside bunches of grapes, strawberries and a pumpkin and
other autumnal fruits with a butterfly in flight to one side.
Circa
1770
Height:
47⁄8 ins (12.5 cms)
Mark:
A rare and elaborate script W mark to the underside of the base.
Private
English Collection
This,
the third and most accomplished version of the pattern is a well defined
example of the final chosen variation. Introduced in circa 1770 it allowed
for a greater variety of autumnal fruits to be used and displayed beneath
the parrot. The shape is the third of four sizes made at