Antique Worcester Flight & Barr Scottish Pride Thistle Tea Cup Gold Cobalt Bowl

This is a ATTRIBUTED TO Worcester. I was told this is Worcester. Usually early Worcester pieces have a blue cresent mark. Circa late 1700s. 

This Tea Bowl has a B Impressed mark on base. This could be for Barr / Bow Ware (Worcester) dating it closer to 1793. 

Tea Bowl featuring a scalloped rim. No handles. Cobalt blue and gold. Thistle / Scottish Pride motif in gold. 

Has areas of staining / paint loss. Wear from age and use. Base is a little rough to the touch. 

Overall in good condition for age. 

Please see all photos. 

Approx Size:

2 1/8" H

3.25" W

1.5" base

Scottish reconciliation period, two generations after Culloden when the Scottish rebels were broken and Scottish royalists tolerated at length. The pressures of war with America and France (with Spain waiting in the wings) demanded that England, with her Hanover king, enlist every resource. Despite their defeat, the voracity of the Scots was universally acknowledged and their military support eagerly courted. The display of the thistle, an icon of Scottish pride, was forbidden by law before 1782. Yet, politics dictated that it be allowed, and Scottish pride, insisted that it be displayed against the law which called for imprisonment for such a display, and merely a few years earlier, would have been fully enforced. The body of shanked (spirally fluted) form with scalloped edges, decorated with gold on cobalt underglaze with primary thistle motif.