Reference Piece – Flight, Barr and Barr – Worcester – Bat printed and gilded porcelain. Thickly cast soft paste porcelain. The cup handle is a florrid variiant of the Classic angular London Style. The deep saucer shows the pece to be early nineteenth century – as does the style of the transfer [...]
Going through Antiquesreview archives – I came across another question – this one from 1999…
Dear Sir,
I have in my possession a small, crudely painted, blue and white shallow dish. It looks Chinese, but the porcelain isn’t very crisp. There are three little cannon balls in the pattern and trees with a pagoda and a hut [...]
Just because a blue and white pot is marked with a crescent does NOT make it Worcester – there are many more aspects that need to be checked first…
The texture of the porcelain, the colour of the paste the translucency, the size, the pattern and the shape all play a part in deciding the origin [...]