1st Period Worcester Dr. Wall Serving Pieces

First Period Worcester Porcelain Phoenix Pattern Sauce Tureens, Covers & Stands, Circa 1770 The First Period Worcester Porcelain Japan pattern colored pair of sauce tureens, covers stands are painted in Kakiemon-style colors with two phoenix type birds, one flying above with wings outstretched amongst prunus and chrysanthemum sprays with a wheatsheaf motif in the foreground. The border with a rim of alternating designs, one in gold and one in rouge de fer red. The rim of the underdishes and the covers with a pie-crust edge. The handles in the form of twigs with flower terminals and green leaves. Dimensions: Overall: 8 1/4 inches wide x 6 1/2 inches deep x 5 1/4 inches high; Tureens: 4 3/4 inches high x 7 inches wide; (Overall: 20.96cm wide x 16.51cm deep x 13.34cm) Condition: the condition is good with expected very minor losses to the edge of some flowers. Reference: Worcester Porcelain: 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Simon Spero and John Sandon,Page 249, No. 298 for a discussion of the Phoenix pattern. The authors write that The Phoenix pattern is one of the most intricate of Worcester's oriental designs and would have been very costly to produce. It generally occurs only on the best thin porcelain and is always carefully and exactly painted...The design has adapted a number of Japanese motifs to create a Rich Kakiemon pattern so typical of Worcester. Meissen elements...

First period Worcester porcelain queen's pattern blind earl sweetmeat dish, Circa 1768-70. The leaf moulded first period Worcester circular porcelain dish has been painted with ...

First Period Worcester porcelain leaf molded sauce boat, Circa 1755-56 The early First Period Worcester porcelain sauce boat is modeled in the form of overlapping cos lettuce leaves. This form and decoration are based on Meissen porcelain form and decoration. This unusual molded example has a looped stem handle and is decorated inside and out with scattered flower sprigs and insects, finished with raised fruit near the handle juncture. Mark: Puce workman's mark. Dimensions: 7 1/4 inches in length x 3 1/4 inches x 4 inches Condition: Good with a tiny frit to the exterior of the lip Reference: S. Spero and J. Sandon, "Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection", 1996, p. 120, no. 88. The authors note that this is one of the very few sauce boats derived from Meissen rather than silver. The boat corresponds to an entry in the factory’s London warehouse price card of 1755-56 of "Leaf sauceboats enamelled 1st 2nd". They also note that they were priced considerably higher than Bow porcelain boats...

First Period Worcester porcelain rare large leaf and flower dish, circa 1762-1765. The large dish with moulded green overlapping leaves with puce veins...

A fine pair of 18th century Worcester porcelain pickle dishes. Finely decorated with a deep blue. Having saw tooth edges and veined u...