A fine and large Worcester hexagonal vase and matched cover c.1758

A fine and large Worcester hexagonal vase and matched cover c.1758, painted with the Fancybird in a Tree pattern, three sides with the eponymous long-tailed bird perched in flowering branches, three with further sprays of Oriental flowers, the neck and shoulders with three landscape panels reserved on a dense foliate ground, the cover with the same design, workman's mark to the vase, the cover with a blue crossed swords mark, 38.5cm. (2)

Cf. Bonhams, The Geoffrey Godden Collection of Blue and White Porcelain, 30th June 2010, lot 68 for a near identical vase, illustrated in Godden's English Blue and White Porcelain, p.23.