A rare Worcester tea bowl and saucer

A rare Worcester tea bowl and sucer, finely painted in Chinese famille rose style with long tailed birds, their tail feathers 'pencilled' in black, amidst bright blue pierced rockwork, peony and leaves, within iron red ruyi head borders, circa 1754-55, no mark

Provenance; Parkinson Collection
                     The Cohen Collection, Albert Amor,1992

Another tea bowl and saucer in this uncommon pattern is in the Marshall Collection, Ashmolean Museum 

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