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An extremely rare and highly
important Early 1st Period Worcester Vase, of small baluster shape with
conical foot and flared neck and rim, beautifully and naturalistically
painted, possibly by James Rogers, with the ‘Mobbing Birds’ pattern,
showing a peacock perched within a scantily leafed tree, being snubbed by
a game bird whilst around it fly a green finch-like bird, a multicoloured
pheasant-like bird and a red finch, together with spiralling flocks of
distant birds, insects, wasps and butterflies.
Circa 1757.
Height: 5ins. (12.5cms.)
No Mark.
Provenence: The A.W.Tuke Collection. Exhibited and illustrated within the
Worcester Bicentenary Exhibition, illustrated H.R.Marshall Coloured
Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, with its pair, now within the
H.R.Marshall Collection at the Ashmolean Museum, no. 700. Exhibited Albert
Amor. The First Decade Exhibition 1981, no. 68. The Composition appears to
have been taken from an engraving by H. Roberts included in the 1762
Edition of the Ladies Amusement. The painting should be compared to the
hand found on rare Dutch jugs, beakers and mugs with similar decoration,
together with a series of about six early lobed plates also the celebrated
mug in the British Museum bearing the words. ‘I.Rogers pinxit 1757’
An extremely rare and unusual Bow model of a Red Squirrel, seated on its
back legs, coloured in tones of brown and rust red, its front paws raised
to its delicately modelled sharp featured head, nibbling on a nut held in
its right paw, the irregularly modelled base picked out with puce scrolls.
Circa 1755-58.
Height: 2ins. (5cms.)
No Marks.
Individual models of this small class are extremely rare, one occasionally
sees the models used upon candlesticks surrounded with bocage at a
slightly later date. There is no example of this very rare model within
the extensive range of animals within the Freeman Collection, now
exhibited at Pallant House, Chichester.
An extremely rare
and amusing Bow model of a Cat, seated upon its haunches, coloured in puce
and sepia with striped markings, its head upright and alert and looking
out, its left leg upon a blue rock into which is creeping a brown mouse,
cradled in the cat’s left paw is another mouse about to jump away, the
rococo scrolled base picked out in puce.
Circa 1755.
Height: 3ins. 7.5cms.
No Marks.
For another version of this model, see ECC Exhib. Catalogue. 1948, p. 39,
no. 193. For the more frequently found Bow cat model, without the mice and
the mouse hole, see Gabszewicz and Freeman, The Freeman Collection, pl.
253, p. 151 and also Adams and Redstone, Bow Porcelain Figures, no. B175
for the example in the Victoria and Albert Museum from the Lady Charlotte
Shreiber Collection.
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