An extremely rare Worcester small vase

An extremely rare Worcester small hexagonal baluster shaped vase, with two angular lug handles, printed and painted in Chinese style with a lady with a fan, seated in a garden, and a figure standing playing a pipe, and with two winged insects, beneath an iron red scroll and pendant flower head band, 3 3/4" high, circa 1753-54, no mark

Provenance; English Private Collection 

See Worcester Porcelain, The Marshall Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, page 96, figure 126, for a bottle vase of conventional form, with the figure of the piper. See also figure 117 for another example of this two handled form, but with floral decoration. Another, with figure decoration, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum 

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