A Flight & Barr, Worcester porcelain yellow-ground bough pot and cover circa 1800

finely painted in the center with a panel of a flower-filled basket flanked by gilt-seeded ground panels of pink roses, puce script Flight & Barr Worcester Manu^s to their Maj^s mark.

8th Antiques Dealers' Fair, June 1948, New York, bearing paper label

There is an approximate 3-inch very fine haricrack running partially parallel to the base and curving to the base. Otherwise in good condition.
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Another early example of this form, painted with black-ground floral panels, was sold at Phillips London, December 12, 1990, lot 524.