P141 - WORCESTER TEAPOT AND COVER

 

Circa 1760, blue script W mark

Painted in the Chinoiserie taste with female figures serving and drinking tea

5 ½ in. (14 cm) high

 

LITERATURE

Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr., Antique Porcelain Digest, Newport, England, 1961, p. 198, plate 161, fig. 561.

 

EXHIBITION

On display in the Scott-Allen Collection at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1996

 

On display in the “George Ryland Scott Collection” in The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from June 1955 until May 1960.

 

NOTES BY CLEO M. AND G. RYLAND SCOTT, JR IN THE LATE 1950’S

Honey p. 176 says, "Among the most characteristic of all.  Worcester inventions were the so-called Japan Patterns." Plat 43 B shows a mug similar to our tea pot.  This pattern is known as the “Long Elizer”, probably as a result of the elongated type of chinoiseries used.  This tea pot also has the rare "W" mark in blue underglaze.