SOLD 18th Century Worcester Porcelain Saucer Milkmaids Print.
Description
SOLD 18th Century Worcester Porcelain Coffee Cup and Saucer Milkmaids Print.
Delicate gilt band to rim, enclosing the black-transfer printed scene of a farmyard centering two Milkmaids, with a man loading up the bucket atop one maid's head. The scene set in a farmyard with two cows feeding, among hay and shrubbery, with a hayrick and two ladders, one under a tree, with broad foliage. The engraved scene by Robert Sayer.
Signed, in the print Hancock ft., lower right, at 5 o'clock.
Unmarked.
Circa 1766-1770.
7/8" H., 4 3/4" Diameter.
Condition: Wear to gilding at rim edge.
Two 1/4" shallow chips at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock.
Provenance: Robin Henry Ceramic Collection, New York.
Collection number unidentified.
RH# 201.