English & European Ceramics & Glass - 24 Nov 2015
A Worcester small mug c.1760
A Worcester small mug c.1760, the bell-shaped body printed in black with La Terre, three Chinese figures potting up exotic plants in a garden landscape, between scattered moths and butterflies, cracked, 8.8cm.
Cf. 18th Century English Transfer-Printed Porcelain and Enamels, The Joseph M Handley Collection, no.4.7 for a similar mug also printed with Le Feu, both after a design of the four elements by P. Aveline after Boucher.