A pair of Worcester leaf-molded sauceboats circa 1758-62

each naturalistically formed as overlapping cos lettuce leaves and painted with scattered insects and butterflies, the interior with a sprig of convolvulus, painted workman's marks.

One with a forking haircrack on one side running from the rim to the foot in one direction,1 1/2 in. in another direction and 1/2 in. in a third direction; the same sauceboat has a 1/4in. rim chip issuing a 1 1/4-in haircrack. The second sauceboat is in generally good condition.
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Simon Spero discusses this form in Worcester Porcelain, 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, p. 120, as one of the few sauceboat forms to derive from Meissen prototypes rather than silver. Found in two sizes, this shape was also produced at Derby and Longton Hall.
Similar examples are illustrated in H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, pl. 5, nos. 80 and 82, and pl. 52, no. 1054; in John Sandon, The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, p. 219 (top right); and in Albert Amor, Worcester Porcelain- The First Decade, no. 50.