An extremely rare Worcester tureen and cover

An extremely rare Worcester oval basket moulded tureen and cover, with silver form loop handle, painted in coloured enamels with flower sprigs and insects, on a yellow ground, the interior painted in Japanese Kakiemon style with flowers and 'banded hedges', the interior of the cover painted with a ho-ho type bird and winged insects, 6 1/2" long, circa 1755, no mark

Provenance; Ann and Travis Epes Collection
                     With Winifred Williams

See Albert Amor, Dr John Wall Exhibition, 1976, number 19, for a similar tureen and cover with a stand. Another example is in the H R Marshall Collection, Ashmolean Museum 

A related stand was in the Zorensky Collection 

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