A Worcester Large Dutch-Form Cabbage-Leaf Jug, Circa 1757
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Auction Closed
January 31, 05:43 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Worcester Large Dutch-Form Cabbage-Leaf Jug, Circa 1757
the ovoid body moulded with overlapping cabbage leaves and applied with a triple scroll handle, lavishly painted in a 'mobbing birds' pattern, with birds perched in a tree and seventeen further birds in flight, among thirty insects ranging from gnats to butterflies, with puce scrollwork ornament decorating the handle and border of leaves on a lime green-ground
height 10 1/2 in.
26.8 cm
Jeane and Milton Zorensky Collection, England, bearing label
The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain, Part III, Bonhams London, 22 February 2006, lot 39
Sir Jeremy Lever Collection, Bonhams London, 7 March 2007, lot 33, bearing label
The Zorensky Collection of Worcester Porcelain, Part III, Bonhams London, 22 February 2006, lot 39
Sir Jeremy Lever Collection, Bonhams London, 7 March 2007, lot 33, bearing label
S. Spero and J. Sandon, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection (Woodbridge 1996), p. 109, cat. no. 68
The jug has some similarities to a small group Worcester porcelains painted with birds attributed to an 'I Rogers', which is based on the documentary Worcester mug in the British Museum, London, inscribed I. Rogers/ Pinxit/ 1757, reg. no. 1959,1103.1. Hugh Tait in his article 'James Rogers, A leading porcelain painter at Worcester c.1755-65', The Connoisseur, April 1962, argued that these pieces were by a James Rogers who exhibited at The Free Society of Artists in 1765, when his address was given as 'Dobson China Shop, St. Martin's Court, Leicester Fields', but as yet no contemporary documentation has been discovered linking John Rogers to the painter of the British Museum mug, 'I. Rogers'.
Among the rare pieces of this size and exquisite decoration attributed to 'I Rogers', a 'Dutch Jug' of the same size as the present lot was with Brian Haughton, London, illustrated in their catalogue Splendour of a Golden Age, Eighteenth Century English Porcelain 1745-1770, London 2004, p. 33, no. 26. A smaller jug (20.2 cm high) attributed to Rogers is in the Henry Rissik Marshall Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, acc. no. WA1957.24.1.473, illustrated in Dinah Reynolds, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1783, Oxford 1989, pp. 26-27, pl. 9. A further smaller jug sold at Bonhams London, 1 May 2013, lot 81, formerly in the R. David Butti Collection, sold at Philips London, 13 December 2000, lot 183 and 13 October 1982, lot 181, illustrated in John Sandon, Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain 1751-1851, Woodbridge 1993, p. 290.
Among the rare pieces of this size and exquisite decoration attributed to 'I Rogers', a 'Dutch Jug' of the same size as the present lot was with Brian Haughton, London, illustrated in their catalogue Splendour of a Golden Age, Eighteenth Century English Porcelain 1745-1770, London 2004, p. 33, no. 26. A smaller jug (20.2 cm high) attributed to Rogers is in the Henry Rissik Marshall Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, acc. no. WA1957.24.1.473, illustrated in Dinah Reynolds, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1783, Oxford 1989, pp. 26-27, pl. 9. A further smaller jug sold at Bonhams London, 1 May 2013, lot 81, formerly in the R. David Butti Collection, sold at Philips London, 13 December 2000, lot 183 and 13 October 1982, lot 181, illustrated in John Sandon, Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain 1751-1851, Woodbridge 1993, p. 290.
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