A rare Worcester moulded teapot and cover c.1760

A rare Worcester moulded teapot and cover c.1760, the barrel shape embossed with a Chinese landscape including a man fishing beneath a flowering prunus tree, with willow on the opposite bank, the reverse with large prunus sprays, all picked out in colours with gilt highlights, the puce running scroll borders also embossed, the cover painted with flower sprays and a matching scroll border, a horizontal body crack, 17.7cm. (2)

Cf. Bonhams, The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain Part II, 23rd February 2005, lot 51 for a similar example with the prunus and willow tree reversed. Also H Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain, pl. 6, fig. 95.