Dr Wall Worcester coffee cup & saucer, ‘Red Line’ group, c. 1765

$495.00 AUD

Dr Wall Worcester coffee cup & saucer, of elegant fluted form, painted in underglaze blue with two bands intersecting in a ring of reserved flowers to the center, enhanced with iron red, green & yellow with a version of Worcester’s ‘Queens’ pattern, distinctive of the ‘Red Line’ group.
Circa 1765

Width: 15.5cm
Height: 7cm
Minor sign of wear

See Sandon p 275 for Red Line Group discussion; Zorensky p.358 & #461 for very similar decoration.
The ‘Red Line’ group are all Worcester pieces with a factory fault, such as a firing flaw, decorated in underglaze blue only. All colours were added by a decorating studio that bought the items with slight faults from Worcester, and decorated them in much the same style, but conspicuously not using gold, as the factory nearly always did. The rims often have a line of red in the place gold is usually seen.

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