18th Century Worcester Porcelain Silver Shape Sauceboat Smokey Primitive Prints.

The rococo-shaped oblong body moulded in low relief, with curls and scrolls issuing foliate and floral designs, enclosing Smokey primitive prints of a squirrel to one side, pheasant to the other, and the interior printed with "Milking Scene, number 2," by Robert Hancock.

Unmarked.

Circa 1755.

3 3/8" H., 7 1/2" L., 3" D.

Nick to rim and foot.

Provenance: Sotheby's, London. 1995.

Robin Henry Ceramic Collection, New York.

Collection #36.

Parallels: For the Milking Scene print: Cyril Cook, The Life and Work of Robert Hancock, (London: Chapman and Hall: 1948) number 70.

The Life and Work of Robert Hancock, Supplement, 1955 (the latter privately printed), number 103.

18th Century English Transfer-Printed Porcelain & Enamels: The Joseph M. Handley Collection (London: Antique Collector's Club, Ltd.: 1995) Item 3.13. p. 124.

Norman B. and Cicely B. Bell Collection, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada

G99.2.15.