PATRICIAN ANTIQUES : ANTIQUE WORCESTER PORCELAIN

The Worcester porcelain company was founded in 1751 by a group of local businessmen led by Dr. Wall, a physician. They aquired the rights to the Bristol soaprock formula from Lund together with his services for one year and a source of soaprock all of which got the factory off to a fast start. By 1752 product was already being shipped. The hybrid soaprock formula was highly resistant to thermal shock (unlike most English soft pastes of the period ) and it gained rapid acceptance for tea wares.

They were the first to introduce transfer printing on porcelain. Both printed and hand decorated wares of very high quality were made and a few figures. Examples can be found in the collections of most major U.S. and British Museums.

Some caution is required in attribution as similar marks have been used by Lowestoft, Caughley and by Sampson (Paris) and others.

See also Worester, blue and white ; Early 19th Century Worcester

All are First Period (Dr Wall) unless attributed to another maker.

Stock #

 Item description

Date

Price

 40035

 PLATE, 8-3/4 " diameter. Lobed rim . Decorated in a rich "Japan" palette with the "Best Queens" pattern, the four panels of flowers alternating with four deep blue bands each with gold foliage and a red mons.

Mark; underglaze blue crescent

With old labels from the Ball & the Lenhart collections. * light wear to gold in well.

 1770-1775

 $650.00

 40030

 SAUCER DISH, 7-1/2" diameter. Decorated in a rich "Japan" palette with the "Best Queens" pattern, the four panels of flowers alternating with four deep blue bands each with gold foliage and a red mons

Mark; underglaze blue fretted seal. * light wear to gold

 c. 1770

 $450.00

 40007 SOLD

TEAPOT & COVER, 6" high. Painted in underglaze blue in the uncommon two quail pattern and over-enameled with iron-red, sepia and gold. Loop handle. Low domed lid with bud finial and applied leaves.

Mark; an open crescent in underglaze blue.

*small chip to under edge of spout

  c. 1775-80

SOLD

 40009 SOLD

 HOT MILK JUG WITH LID. 4-1/2" high.

Pear shaped with sparrow beak Decorated in poychrome enamels with sprays and a bouquet of flowers featuring a rose. The low domed lid with a bud finial. Plain handle.

  c. 1765

SOLD

 40010 SOLD

 CREAM JUG, 3-1/2" high.

Slender pear shaped with sparrow beak. Polychrome decoration of a floral bouquet and sprays. Handle with groove. Interior with gold border.

  c. 1765

SOLD

 40060 SOLD

 CREAM JUG, 3" high.

Pear shaped with sparrow beak. Polychrome decoration of a floral bouquet and sprays. Handle with groove. Interior with iron-red border.

  c. 1765

  SOLD

40047SOLD

 TEA VASE, 5-1/2" high.

Painted with a colorful spray of flowers on one side and the other with the so called "Thunder & lighting" motif. No marks. Lacking cover.

*restoration to neck.

 c. 1770

SOLD

 33186 SOLD

 TEAPOT, 5 inches high. Fluted body. Variant of the "Hop Trellis" pattern.

PROVENANCE. The Collection of A.Trapnell (Sold Christies c.1920); Esperance Collection( Auction c. 1940); Carter Collection 1900-23 (sold Marshall Field c.1946).

MARK; None

 c.1770-1775

 SOLD

 33184

 CUP & SAUCER. Cup 2-1/4" high, saucer 4-1/2" diameter. Bell shaped cup with wishbone handle. Narrow black border line. Black print "L'Amour" signed with initials for Robert Hancock and the Holdship's Anchor mark.

MARK; None

* restoration to section of saucer rim

 c.1760

 $750.00

 25863

SUGAR BOX, 5-1/2"high, 5-1/2"long. Oval shape with molded shanked ribs, molded ring handles. Pattern #15, white ground with small purple and gold sprigs. Gold rim, handles and finial.

FLIGHT. No mark. *Firing crack interior of lid.

 1790

$275.00

 25600

SMALL JUNKET DISH, molded with spiral flutes. White body with underglaze blue and overpainted gold design.

FLIGHT.

Mark; Underglaze blue crescent

 c. 1790

$225.00

33192 

 LARGE JUNKET DISH, 2-1/8" high, 11-1/2" diameter. Shaped rim boded form. Scale blue ground with gilt scroll frames around the shaped white reserves decorated with muticolored flowers.

MARK: Underglaze fretted square.

* kiln ash on reverse.

 c.1775

  $2,950.00

 33189 SOLD

PLATE, 7-1/2"diameter. Shaped gold dentil rim with deep blue ground & gilded scroll design; the white well decorated with a floral bouquet.

From the Esperance Collection and Carter Collection sold by Marshall Field Chicago in 1946.

Mark: Underglaze blue open crescent.

*Kiln ash on reverse & minor rim chip restored.

 1768-70

SOLD

 33198

 SMALL PLATE, 6-1/4"diameter. Shaped gilded rim. Scale blue ground with gilt scroll frames around the shaped white reserves decorated with muticolored flowers.

Mark: Underglaze blue fretted square

*Restoration to nick on rim.

 c.1775

 $775.00

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