A very rare Worcester miniature or 'toy' teabowl and saucer and a coffee cup, circa 1775Plain in shape and of very small size, the cup with a grooved handle, painted in colours with formal flowers, the teabowl and saucer with additional gilded rims, cup 3.6cm high, saucer 5.1cm diam (3)FootnotesProvenance Gerald Moore Collection Having made miniature blue and white teawares a decade or more previously, Worcester chose to reintroduce a small number of toys around 1775. These were smaller than most toy teawares in English porcelain and, unusually, were decorated in enamel colours. Very few appear to have been made, and when the Worcester factory introduced a new range of blue and white toys in the 1780s, they returned to a more popular, slightly larger size.
A very rare Worcester miniature or 'toy' teabowl and saucer and a coffee cup, circa 1775Plain in shape and of very small size, the cup with a grooved handle, painted in colours with formal flowers, the teabowl and saucer with additional gilded rims, cup 3.6cm high, saucer 5.1cm diam (3)FootnotesProvenance Gerald Moore Collection Having made miniature blue and white teawares a decade or more previously, Worcester chose to reintroduce a small number of toys around 1775. These were smaller than most toy teawares in English porcelain and, unusually, were decorated in enamel colours. Very few appear to have been made, and when the Worcester factory introduced a new range of blue and white toys in the 1780s, they returned to a more popular, slightly larger size.
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