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Lot 187*

A very rare pair of Worcester bough pots, circa 1768

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,812.50 inc. premium

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A very rare pair of Worcester bough pots, circa 1768

Of exuberant rococo-moulded form, the high backs pierced for suspension, the fixed covers with one large and eighteen smaller apertures, the boldly scroll-moulded rims picked out in gold, painted in bright enamels with three panels of 'fancy' birds edged with gilt scrollwork, the reverse with two similar birds in flight below a single puce floral sprig, reserved on a scale blue ground, 21.7cm and 22cm wide, square marks (2)

Footnotes

Fully modelled in the round and decorated to the reverse, this pair appears not to have been designed for placing against a wall, although there are suspension holes to the back. A similar example decorated in this way from the Zorensky Collection was sold by Bonhams on 22 February 2005, lot 177, and another on 17 May 2017, lot 322.

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