A Worcester blue and white water bottle or guglet c.1760-65

A Worcester blue and white water bottle or guglet c.1760-65, painted with the Willow Bridge Fisherman pattern, a figure traversing an arched bridge with two further figures fishing from a sampan beneath, the reverse with a figure and a bird beside a small pagoda beneath pine, the ovoid body rising to a knopped flared neck, open crescent mark, a short rim crack, 27.8cm.

The term 'guglet' is believed to derive from the sound made by liquid pouring out of the wide neck of such shaped bottles, though in fact the flared neck of this bottle is less common at Worcester than the narrow truncated opening on similar bottles.