teabowl & saucer
Worcester Porcelain Factory 1751
Summary
Public: Teabowl and saucer, soft paste porcelain, transfer printed overglaze in black, depicting fountain, courting couples and guitar player. Private: Teabowl and saucer printed overglaze in black with corresponding scene - La Cascade. Teabowl : slightly tapered footring, everted rim, has blacker less defined print and shows La Cascade into two parts. One part shows an elegantly dressed man and woman standing in garden foreground to left of guitar player, behind whom are man, woman and tree. Other scene shows fountain formed of three putti and goat supported by pedestal of dolphins. Inside well swimming swan print. Saucer : shallow footring, shows whole La Cascade, with man and woman, guitar player and fountain in garden in finer detail and paler black, clearly signed R. Hancock fecit. Black band around inner rim. Black specks and pitting, more evident on teabowl, which also shows signs of misplaced ink from print on footring.
Object Name
teabowl & saucer
Creators Name
Date Created
c 1755=1760
Dimensions
saucer: 2cm x 11.9cm
teabowl: 3.9cm x 7.7cm
accession number
1948.153/2
Collection Group
Place of creation
Worcester
Medium
Credit
Gift of Mrs R E M Dykes
Legal
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