Worcester Sauce Boat with ‘Two Porters’ Landscape Pattern c1770

Description

Heading : Worcester Sauce Boat with ‘Two Porters’ Landscape Pattern

Date : 1760-80
Period : George III
Marks : Open crescent
Origin : Worcester. England                                                                                                         
Pattern : Two Porter Landscape – Variant 1 as catalogued below
Colour : Underglaze blue 
Features : Moulded soft paste porcelain sauce boat. scrolling. convolute mouldings around a flat. three-lobed reserve and with scalloped rims
Size : 7.2 cm tall by 14.0 cm in length
Condition : Excellent; no chips. cracks or flakes; a little sporadic kiln-spit and some pin-prick holes to the glaze; the handle – though completely undamaged – has been mounted a little askew and – in fact – the whole body is some way from being entirely symmetrical as if there was a degree of slumping in the early stages of firing
Restoration : None
Weight : 113 grams

Reference : Worcester Blue & White Porcelain 1751-90 (Brayan. French and Sandon 1989) page128 – pattern IB 31