Worcester European Landscape pattern Porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer c1780

Description

Heading : Worcester European Landscape pattern Porcelain Tea Bowl and Saucer
Date : 1777-1785
Period : George III
Marks : Worcester shaded crescent to both
Origin : Worcester; England
Colour : Underglaze blue
Pattern : European Landscape pattern – two gentlemen regarding a lakeside vista over a fence on both pieces; the reverse of the tea bowl with a single man walking along a road towards a distant castle
Condition : both excellent; no cracks; teabowl has a tiny nibbles to the rim and a small chip to the inside of the foot rim; bowl with some small under-glaze inclusions to the base of the well
Restoration : None
Dimensions : Saucer 2.9cm high x 11.9 cm diameter; tea bowl 4.4cm high x 7.4cm diameter
Weight : 124g

Eric Knowles Comments : This range of designs had fewer ‘required elements’ than the reproductions of oriental scenes. which stuck more rigidly to type; there are – therefore – a number of variations on the general theme. but they are all generally recognisable enough to have been given a collective name; our pair is a marriage of two non-matching versions

Worcester Blue & White Porcelain 1751-1790  (Branyan. French & Sandon 1989) page 345-7