A Worcester small soup or dessert plate c.1755-58

A Worcester small soup or dessert plate c.1755-58, the deep well printed in brown with La Cascade, a courting couple walking beside a fountain with musicians beyond, signed in the print 'R Hancock fecit', 15cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Sir Anthony Tuke. Purchased from Tilley & Co., 6th November 1952.

Cf. Simon Spero, The Joseph M Handley Collection, p.52 for a teapot in the same print. The engraving for this pattern was derived from a Watteau painting in the Wallace Collection.