Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 23rd February 2016
Lot 226
A Worcester large teabowl and a saucer c.1765
Estimate £180 - £220 | Hammer £220
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Description
A Worcester large teabowl and a saucer c.1765, both printed in purple, the teabowl with scenes of Classical ruins and a scene of figures in a boat before a wall, the saucer with the Obelisk and Temple of Minerva Medica, 12.8cm max. (2)
Provenance: The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain Part I, lot 271 (the saucer). Paper labels for the Sir Jeremy Lever Collection.
The print on the saucer is considered to be by James Ross, a pupil of Robert Hancock. The source of the print is after an engraving by J.S. Muller after Pannini, dated 1753.