A very rare Worcester small butter boat

A very rare Worcester small fluted oval butter boat, the angular loop handle with scroll thumb piece, painted in underglaze blue with the Treehouse pattern, in Chinese style, the interior painted with a pagoda and a rock on an island, flower sprays and diaper panels, blue line rim, 4 1/4" long, circa 1758, workman's mark

Provenance; With Albert Amor
                     With Robyn Robb
                     Canadian Private Collection 
Illustrated: Branyan, French and Sandon, I.B.12, where it is noted that only one other example was then recorded, in the Godden Reference Collection 

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