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An extremely fine 1st
period Dr. Wall Worcester Tankard, of the smallest size, of cylindrical
form with ridged loop handle, fully decorated in the kakiemon palette with
an early rendition of the “Two Quail” pattern, showing two quails beneath
a flowering prunus tree, beside flowering oriental plants with insects in
flight overhead, below an iron red scrolling foliage border picked at
intervals with gold flowerheads.
c. 1758 – 60
Height: 3 ½ ins (9 cms)
No marks
Provenance: The Dr. Albrecht Collection of Kakiemon inspired Porcelain.
This the smallest of 3 sizes of tankard produced at Worcester bears an
early version of the “Two Quail” pattern. The skill of the expert hand can
be noted when seeing the high detail evident in the plumage of the quails.
The whole pattern has a very naturalistic feel to it which becomes stilted
in the mid 1760’s and less alive.
A very Fine 1st Period Dr. Wall Worcester Tankard, the cylindrical body
with ridged loop handle, transfer printed in outline and hand painted in
delicate pastel shades with the ‘Red Bull’ pattern, showing three
chinamen, one holding a staff leading two Oxen, one coloured scarlet
beside a billowing rock covered in vegetation and a wizened pine tree
beneath a scarlet sun.
c. 1758-60.
Height: 4 ¾ ins (12cms) The middle of three sizes used at Worcester.
No Mark.
This design first appears circa 1754, usually with a hatched diaper and
famille verte floral border, up to about 1765. A particularly fine
representation of very early wares bearing the pattern can be seen in the
Museum of Worcester Porcelain, including: an early lobed melon-shaped
teapot and cover, a foliate bowl and a finger bowl and stand. The pattern
is also used on the early ‘Dutch’ cabbage leaf moulded jugs with plain
cylindrical necks. However the rarest form to be found bearing the pattern
would be the wet mustard pot in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, within the
H.R. Marshall collection and illustrated within his book ‘Coloured
Worcester Porcelain of the First Period’, pl. 24. No. 522.
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