Dr Wall / First Period Worcester Porcelain Cream / Milk Jug Landscape Pattern Rare Variant c.1780

A lovely first period Worcester porcelain blue and white sparrow beak cream jug printed with a rare combination of landscape patterns. The main pattern is the leading side of the "Circled Landscape" with a viaduct type bridge with a small structure on top, a house on the river bank and a small boat in the foreground. On the other side within the same patterned border is a scene loosely based on a mash up of some of the themes of the "European Landscape Group" but a distinctly different set of engraved designs.  It is set against a main river backdrop with a sailing boat to the left and a rowing boat with four occupants to the foreground. To the right is a windmill with a house and tree and smaller buildings away in the distance. An example of this rare second print is seen in colour plate 113, in Godden's Guide to English Blue & White Porcelain. The frieze around the vignettes is repeated inside the rim with two further tiny landscape scenes. Grooved strap handle. c. 1780. Provenance: The Bayard Collection. References: Worcester Blue & White Porcelain, Branyan, French & Sandon, sections II.B.15 and II.B.16. The usual opposing pattern to the "Circled Landscape" is well documented as being another bridge scene, illustrated in "An Introduction To English Blue & White Porcelains" by Godden, entries 138 and 141, pg. 66-67 and a further example on pg, 68; and Caughley & Worcester Porcelains by Godden, plates 249 and 234. Example tea bowl & saucer in the V&A.