A rare Worcester sauceboat

A rare Worcester pedestal sauceboat, the loop handle with scroll thumbpiece, printed in 'smoky primitive' style to the interior , probably by Robert Hancock, with lovers amongst ruins, the rim painted in coloured enamels with flowers, the exterior printed with a church and a watermill, within scroll moulded cartouches picked out in puce, 7 1/2" long, circa 1754-55, no mark

Provenance; Canadian Private Collection

See 18th Century English Transfer Printed Porcelain and Enamels, The Joseph M Handley Collection, page 44, for the interior view of a similar sauceboat, but without the polychrome decoration 

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