Rare 18th Century Worcester Porcelain Creamboat with Black Transfer Print

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Description

Rare 18th Century Worcester Porcelain Creamboat with Black Transfer Print, the bidy of lobed oval shape, with squared, angular handle and scrolling thumbrest. The creamboat with basket-weave paneled aides printed in black with “Autumn” and a wooing courtier couple by a fountain.The inner rim with a cell-and-diaper penciled border, again in black enamel.

Unmarked.

Circa 1755.

4” High.

3/8” hairline crack to rim, 1/4”x 3’/8” chip to lip. Glaze blow out with kiln speckling just above lower handle terminate. Typical light kiln speckling.


The print of Autumn is after a series of The Four Seasons by Louis Philippe Boitard. This version “La Cascade” is quite rare.

Parallels: Cyril Cook, The Life and. Work of Robert Hancock, number 41.

Provenance:

Rous Lench Collection, number 577.                    

Sold at Christie’s London, May 29-30, 1990, Lot 239.  

The Billie Pain Collection.

Sold at Bonham’s, London, November 26, 2003, Lot 177.

Robin Henry Ceramic Collection, New York, Collection Number 82.