18th Century Worcester Porcelain Teapot Stand, Ruins Transfer Print. 

The stand of hexagonal form, with scalloped mid-sections, and everted walls. 

Transfer-printed in black enamel with Robert Hancock's Ruins print under slender black band at rim. Two figures in long robes in the lower right foreground, standing before a large urn on stepped plinth in the middle of classical columns among grasses, surrounded by towering trees, with a view. 

Unmarked. 

Circa 1770. 

1" H. x 5 1/2" W. x 5 1/2" D. 

Condition: Rim chip at 8:45 o'clock, hairline crack in the form of an L with a long leg, starting at 10 o'clock and crawling down the wall, toward the face, and to 11:30 o'clock. Wear to enamel, no doubt from teapot rubbing the surface. 

Note: Possible "invisible" signature for Hancock at 4 o'clock in the print. 

Provenance:

Robin Henry Ceramic Collection, New York.

Collection #57. 

Parallels:

Cook, Cyril, The Life and Work of Robert Hancock, [Supplement], (Privately Printed: 1955), no. 52, figure 2.

The English Ceramic Circle Transactions, volume 18, 2004, part 3, p. 529, no. 12.