A Worcester blue and white coffee can or small mug, c.1757-58, painted with the Listening Birds

A Worcester blue and white coffee can or small mug, c.1757-58, painted with the Listening Birds pattern, possibly by Rogers, with three birds perched in the branches of a tree with further birds in flight around and mountains visible in the distance, workman's mark, 6.2cm.

This rare painted pattern is the predecessor to the more common printed Birds in Branches pattern. Very few examples are known.