A Worcester mug and a teabowl, circa 1760-70, together with a Japanese prototype saucer, circa 1700-30 The first of bell shape with a grooved loop handle, painted in Kakiemon colours with a version of the 'Two Quail' pattern, the two birds by a flowering prunus tree among scattered flower sprigs, leaves and insects, below an iron-red foliate border, details picked out with gilding, 11.9cm high, the others richly decorated in Imari style with scrolled panels of iron red and underglaze blue flowers and foliage set against a solid gold ground, flanked by trees and flowering plants, saucer 12.3cm diam (3) Footnotes: Provenance Stockspring Antiques exhibition, 2017, nos.9 and 10 (teabowl and saucer) John E Bodie OBE Collection A coffee cup and saucer in the same rare Imari pattern from the Zorensky Collection is illustrated by John Sandon and Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain (1996), no.280 and was sold by Bonhams on 22 February 2006, lot 151. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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