Courtesy of Bonhams (Oxford)
 

Shape Type: Breakfast & Tea Wares

Pattern Type: Chinese, Asian and Other Exotic Themes

Date: c. 1757-59

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 4.80 in (12.20 cm)

Maker: Worcester

Description:

This teabowl and saucer is decorated with an early transfer print of a chinoiserie landscape called the Two Swan Precipice.  This is one of a group of early underglaze blue prints used at Worcester.  Most, like this pattern, are now very rarely found.


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