A rare Worcester coffee can, circa 1753-55 Of 'Scratch Cross' type, the cylindrical form with a slightly flared foot, delicately painted in pale underglaze blue with the 'Question Mark Island' pattern (I.B.3) of a chinoiserie figure crossing a bridge between two islands, one with distinctively shaped rockwork, 6.4cm high Fußnoten Provenance Private Collection, Simon Spero exhibition, 2006, no.35 Most examples of this pattern have been overpainted, apparently contemporaneously to the manufacture, in red enamel. Variation in the underglaze blue has been used to good effect on the present lot, with just the bridge and torso of the figure standing out against the very pale landscape. A similar coffee can from the Billie Pain Collection was sold by Bonhams on 26 November 2003, lot 201.
A rare Worcester coffee can, circa 1753-55 Of 'Scratch Cross' type, the cylindrical form with a slightly flared foot, delicately painted in pale underglaze blue with the 'Question Mark Island' pattern (I.B.3) of a chinoiserie figure crossing a bridge between two islands, one with distinctively shaped rockwork, 6.4cm high Fußnoten Provenance Private Collection, Simon Spero exhibition, 2006, no.35 Most examples of this pattern have been overpainted, apparently contemporaneously to the manufacture, in red enamel. Variation in the underglaze blue has been used to good effect on the present lot, with just the bridge and torso of the figure standing out against the very pale landscape. A similar coffee can from the Billie Pain Collection was sold by Bonhams on 26 November 2003, lot 201.
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