A pair of Aesthetic Movement Royal Worcester tea cups and saucers

A pair of Aesthetic Movement Royal Worcester tea cups and saucers, fluted form, the cup modelled in low relief with frogs holding spears and looking up at a tree, the saucer a snake catching and swallowing a frog, whilst other frogs escape, the well modelled as a pond, in gold and bronze glazes on an ivory ground, printed marks, one cup smashed and re-stuck, 16.5cm. diam. (saucers) (4)

Literature

Charlotte Gere & Michael Whiteway 19th Century Design from Pugin to Mackintosh, page 174 plate 217 for three vases with similar decoration. Royal Worcester won a gold medal for its ceramic display at the 1878 Paris Exposition, with particular praise lavished on its Japanese style raised decoration in gold and bronze.