Collection of First Period Worcester Porcelain, Summer 2019

Earle D. Vandek a r of Knightsbridge, Inc. FINE ANTIQUE PORCELAIN AND POTTERY,ENGRAVINGS, CHINA TRADE WATERCOLOURS AND SAILORS’ WOOLIES

First Period Worcester Porcelain, Summer 2019

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First Period Worcester Porcelain Fable Plate, Lord Henry Thynne Pattern, Painting By Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale, Circa 1775.

(NY9036) The First Period Worcester porcelain scalloped plate is painted with a central circular reserved panel with hounds by Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale. The border with groupings of fruit and birds in the Lord Henry Thynne pattern and the rim with a deep blue band with alternating blocks of different diaper designs.

Possibly The fable- The Mischievous Dog A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met, and to bite them without notice. His master suspended a bell about his neck so that the Dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the Dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the marketplace. One day an old hound said to him: Why do you make such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog."

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Mark: Blue crescent mark.

Dimensions: Diameter 8 3/8 inches.

Reference: The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, Volume I, 1751-1851, Page 337 for discussion of the Lord Henry Thynne pattern and a plate illustrated with a very similar border design. See Page 251 for discussion of Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale.

Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, H. Rissik Marshall, Page 43 discusses the source for O'Neale which, he suggests, is from Francis Barlow's fable number XXII. $5,000.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Dry Blue Enamel Large Dish or Platter, Circa 1768-70.

(NY9040) The large First Period Worcester porcelain dish with canted corners is painted with flowers in Dry Blue.

John Sandon mentions that blue enamel was a very difficult colour to control when used overglaze. Worcester overcame this problem by developing a very vibrant bright blue enamel.

Dimensions: 13 inches wide x 10 inches deep. $2,500.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Coffee Can & Saucer, Circa 1770 The Worcester porcelain coffee can and saucer are finely painted with a central reserve with a landscape scene with a flower and butterfly design. The border with a wet blue and gold rim.

This design is closely related to the Lord Henry Thynne and Earl Dalhousie patterns.

Dimensions: 4 3/4 inch diameter to saucer.

Mark: open underglaze blue crescent. $750.00

First Period Porcelain Beakers with Kakiemon Double Quail Design, Circa 1770.

(NY9037) The pair of beakers or tumblers are painted with a double quail design in a Kakiemon palette after the Meissen with the design encompassing the whole body. John Sandon illustrates this form with a hunting scene and calls them stirrup beakers.

Dimensions: Height 2 1/4 x diameter 2 3/4 inches Mark: Gold crescent.

Reference: The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, Volume I, 1751-1851, John Sandon, Page 272 for discussion of the Quail pattern and a mention of the occasional use of a gold crescent on these wares leading to a factory attribution rather than Giles. See Page 86 for a butter tub with thisdesign and also a gold crescent. Page 318 shows the form where the authir uses the term stirrup cup and stirrup beaker. $3,750.00

First Period Worcester Polychrome Porcelain Tankard Decorated with The Milking Scene (No.1) and Rural Lovers on the Reverse, Circa 1768.

(VM98322A) The cylindrical First Period Worcester tankard with flaring foot depicts two polychrome painted scenes. The first is a milking scene by Robert Hancock after a print of a youth talking to a girl milking a cow is copied from an engraving by Luke Sullivan published in 1759 of 'A view of Woobourn in Surry, the seat of Philip Southcote, Esqr.'.

The second is called Rural Lovers with milkmaid and cowherd against a tree with a dog.

Dimensions: 5 7/8 inches high x 4 inches diameter x 5 1/4 inches Reference: A black and white printed example is in the V&A (Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, case 5, shelf 3) Identically printed small mug in the Sir Jeremy Lever Collection, . Part 1, Bonhams. $2,750.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Rare Large Leaf & Flower Dish, Circa 1762-65.

(NY9015) The large dish with moulded green overlapping leaves with puce veins with a central raised roundel with a polychrome flower bouquet. The rim with puce rococo swirls. Two tiny frits to rim invisibly repaired.

Dimensions: 10 3/4 inches diameter x 1 3/4 high.

Provenance: Albert Amor Ltd.; Private collection label with WP 295.

Reference: Zorensky catalogue fig. 83. Provenance: the Rous Lench collection, Sothebys 1st July, 1986, lot 261.

This shape is relatively rare and unlike most leaf forms in English porcelain it appears to have no Meissen prototype. For a blue and white example see fig. 615. $5,500.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Large Pair of Openwork Baskets with Printed Pine Cone Pattern, Circa 1770-75.

(NY9024) The large baskets are decorated with the underglaze blue Pine Cone pattern in the central well.

The rim with a blue cell band.

Dimensions: Diameter 10 3/8 inches. $3,750.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Tea Bowl & Saucer, Pencilled decoration with Boy on a Buffalo Pattern, 1755-56 The black pencilled design depicts a boy on the back of a buffalo within a Chinese landscape.

The painting was achieved using a small pointed brush called a "pencil".

John Sandon comments that this painted design is rarely found on cups and saucers and this example of the pattern is unique to Worcester. It is also the earliest example of this type of design, taken from the Chinese Export, found on English porcelain. The Chinese Export examples with this look are know as En Grisaille.

Mark: Each piece with workman's mark- p on one and a circle with arrows on the other.

Dimensions: Saucer 5 inches diameter x 3/4 inches; Cup: 3 inches diameter x 1 5/8 inches Reference: The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, Volume I, 1751-1851, John Sandon, see Page 257 for discussion of Pencilled decoration and Page 81 for a discussion of the Boy on a Buffalo Pattern. $1,900.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Pair of Leaf Serving Dishes, Circa 1758-60.

(VM98250) The First Period Worcester porcelain dishes with moulded strawberry leaf and stem handles, the pierced lattice soles fitted with basketwork, the reserves painted with flower heads. The design is after a Meissen original.

Length 11 7/8 inches (30 cm).

Reference: The Dictionary of Worcester Porcelain, Volume I, 1751-1851, John Sandon, Page 366-367 for a colour illustration (plate 98) of a yellow ground examples. $6,500.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Large Leaf Dish, Probably painted by James Giles or other outside decorator in London, Circa 1770.

(NY6001) A moulded First Period Worcester porcelain leaf dish with overlapping leavesas possibly decorated by the famous London painter, James Giles. The rim of the dish is gilded with a thin line and the centres of the large moulded leaves is painted in puce. The design of fruit and butterflies is characteristic of Giles's workshop painting as discussed by Stephen Hanscombe in James Giles, China and Glass Painter 1718-80 (see the reference section below).

Dimensions: 14 inches x 9 3/4 inches Reference: Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Simon Spero & John Sandon, page 187, #215 for a smaller version of the shape.

It is possible that this dish was painted in the Giles workshop. James Giles, China and Glass Painter 1718-80, Stephen Hanscombe. See chapter 5 for photographic examples of characteristic painting mannerisms such as the upturned mushroom with the pleated underside and butterflies with unnaturally long thin wings and curiously folded legs overlapping antennae. See plate 40 for leaf dish with similar fruit and butterflies. $5.500.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Large Blue Scale Botanical Mask Jug, Circa 1775.

(NY8453) An unusual First Period Worcester porcelain blue scale ground mask jug with multiple panels with botanical decoration.

Mark: underglaze blue square fret mark.

Dimensions: 7 inches tall x 6 inches wide x 4 1/2 inches deep (17.78 cm high x 15.24 cm wide x 11.43 cm deep) $1,750.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Botanical Blue Scale Kidney-Shaped Dish, Circa 1770.

(NY5997) The First Period Worcester porcelain kidney-shaped dish has a blue-scale ground with four large shaped panels and four smaller vase-shaped panels on the rim, all finely painted with flowers. The vase-form panels have a single flower while the larger panels are painted with an assortment of flowers, each has a distinctive long-stemmed flower to each side. In the central well is another panel of kidney-shape similarly painted with flowers. Each panel is bordered with fine rococo gilding.

Length: 10 inches x 7 1/2 inches deep Mark: Underglaze blue fret mark Reference: Worcester Porcelain, 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Simon Spero & John Sandon, page 262, #310, for a kidney-shaped dish. $3,800.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Blue-Ground Exotic Bird-decorated Cake Plate, Circa 1770.

(NY5995A) The First Period Worcester saucer dish is decorated with a mazarine-blue ground. The central circular reserve is painted with two exotic birds standing on green grass and with a tall flowering plant rising above them from behind.

Diameter: 7 inches.

Mark: Underglaze blue crescent.

Reference: The Catalogue of The Frank LLoyd Collection of Worcester Porcelain of The Wall Period, R.A. Hobson, page 296 for description and plate 63, #296 for illustration of a teacup and saucer from a very similar service with slight differences in the gilding. $1,500.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Mazarine Blue Scale Botanical Sauce Tureens Covers & Stands, Circa 1768-72.

(NY8474) The outstanding botanical oval sauce tureens, covers & stands with a blue scale ground are highlighted with panels of flowers and the handles in the form of flowering twigs.

Dimensions: 4 inches high x 7 1/2 inches long x 5 3/4 inches deep $4,500.00

First Period Worcester Porcelain Blue Scale Botanical Dessert Plate, Circa 1768-72.

(NY8475) The circular First Period Worcester Plate with panels of flowers on a Blue Scale ground. Tiny chip to rim invisibly repaired.

Dimensions: 7 1/2 inches x 1 1/4 inches high. $375.00

First Period Worcester Underglaze Blue Blind Earl Leaf Sweetmeat Dish, Circa 1765-75.

(NY7997) The 18th-century shaped First Period Worcester Blind Earl pattern moulded dish is finely painted in underglaze blue with bugs and leaves.

Dimensions: 6 inches x 5 1/2 inches (15.24 cm x 13.97 cm).

Note: The Blind Earl pattern, with its raised molding, was introduced by Worcester in the 1750’s. The story that the pattern was made for the Earl of Coventry (The Blind Earl), who lost his sight in a hunting accident and asked Worcester to make for him a design that he could feel is erroneous.

The accident dated to the 1770's.

A similar shape was also made at Chelsea during the Red Anchor period (1752-56).

Reference: Worcester Porcelain, Zorensky Collection, Page 458, #623 for an identical dish $2,800.00