English & European Ceramics & Glass - 24 Nov 2015
A large and rare Worcester blue and white two-handled sauceboat c.1755-60
A large and rare Worcester blue and white two-handled sauceboat c.1755-60, painted to the interior with the Two-Handled Sauceboat Landscape, with two boats beside small pagodas on rock strata, the exterior with further landscape vignettes within crisply moulded leafy borders, the handles modelled with grotesque animal heads, workman's mark, a small rim chip, 22.5cm across.
Cf. Bonhams, The Geoffrey Godden Collection of Blue and White Porcelain, 30th June 2010, lot 57 for an identical sauceboat with the same workman's mark.