A rare Worcester blue and white tea canister and cover c.1780-90

A rare Worcester blue and white tea canister and cover c.1780-90, the fluted form painted with the Caughley Temple pattern, a continuous landscape of figures before pagodas and pine trees, 17cm. (2)

This was a very deliberate copy of the Temple pattern printed on Caughley wares of the same period, and different to Worcester's own printed Temple pattern. The painter has gone so far as to copy the straight lines of the rival factory's printed design.