First Period Worcester Porcelain Cream / Milk Jug Landscape Pattern Rare Variant

A 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 seemingly 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 the 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 small 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 opposing pattern on other examples of 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. The second rare print is illustrated in Godden's Guide to English Blue & White Porcelain, plate 530, colour plate 113.