A WORCESTER TRANSFER-PRINTED SMALL CYLINDRICAL MUG

This design, by Robert Hancock, was printed in The Ladies' Amusement, a source for design and ornament which could be used by artist-craftsmen. The book was published in at least two editions in around 1758-62 by Robert Sayer of Fleet Street, see The Ladies's Amusement, Robert Sayer, (1966, reprint), p. 74 for this print. Three versions of the 'Parrot and Fruit' pattern exist, of which this is the earliest and considered by Cyril Cook to be one of the finest examples of Robert Hancock's work. See Cyril Cook, The Life Of Robert Hancock, London, 1948, p. 62, pl. 6 and also Simon Spero and John Sandon, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1790, The Zorensky Collection, Suffolk, 1996, p. 383.