A rare Derby wine taster

A rare Derby wine taster, c.1756-60, the circular form with lobed moulding to the exterior, decorated with stylized puce leaf sprays, the interior well painted with a flowering peony plant in a simple palette of polychrome enamels within a double line border, the pierced scroll handle picked out in puce, a fine short rim crack, 7.1cm.

Provenance: Bonhams, 8th September 2004, lot 212.