Lot 326
  • 326

A collection of Worcester scale-blue ground porcelain, circa 1768-70

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Porcelain
comprising a kidney-shaped dish painted in the workshops of James Giles with a version of the 'Lady Mary Wortley Montagu' pattern, 26cm., 10 1/4 in. wide, a double handled cup and saucer, and a small plate similarly painted with cartouches of fancy birds; and a selection of pieces painted with cartouches of flowers comprising a double handled cup and saucer, a cylindrical mug, a teacup and saucer, a lozenge shaped dish, a large fluted dish, 24.8cm., 9 3/4 in. diam., a pair of plates, 22.6cm., 8 7/8 in. diam., a pair of smaller plates, 19.2cm., 7 1/2 in. diam., and two further similar small plates, together with a powder-blue ground sucrier and cover and a five-sided teapot stand with fan-shaped panels reserving flowers, most with square mark in underglaze-blue (20)

Exhibited

the larger pair of plates both with Albert Amor 1973 Exhibition label

Condition

The kidney shaped dish with some flakes to gilded flowers at well of dish. The saucer with fancy birds, chip to foot rim, The mug with restored hairline crack at rim. Some typical surface scratching and rubbing to gilding on rims.
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