Worcester Porcelain Sauce Boat Early Flowering Plants

Description

Heading : Worcester Porcelain Sauce Boat with Early Flowering Plants Pattern
Date : 1758-1765
Period : George II – George III
Marks : bold hatched crescent to the base
Origin : Worcester. England
Colour : underglaze blue on white
Pattern : The Early Flowering Plants pattern; catalogued II.C.2 as below

Features: Footed sauce-boat with gadrooned moulding to the base and the centre part of the undulating rim
Condition : Very good; slight fritting to the foot-rim. sporadic kiln spit to the flanks of the body and a fine though stained crack to the lower terminal of the handle; as the rest of the handle is intact. this is presumably a firing defect
Restoration ; none
Dimensions : 9.0 cm high – 15.7 cm rear of handle to tip of spout
Weight : 177 grams

References: Worcester Blue And Whte Porcelain (Branyan. French & Sandon. 1981) pp 364-366

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