Description:
Soft-paste procelain waste bowl with a deep well, curving sides, and applied footrim, which is marked with an underglaze blue crescent on the botton for the Worcester Porcelain Factory. The bowl is decorated in underglaze cobalt blue enamel with a transfer-printed design of the "Three Flowers" pattern depicting a variety of flowers, a rose, and a butterfly. The "Three Flowers" design was one of the Worcester Factory's most popular patterns, which was copied by the Caughley Factory and Lowestoft Factory. Marks and the poor quality of the printing help distinguish the copies from the Worcester originals. The pattern was so popular that it was also copied on Staffordshire earthenwares .A waste bowl or slop bason (as it was also known) served as a receptacle for used leaves and leftover tea water.
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