31 Mar 2010
10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street
The Crane Collection of 18th Century English Porcelain
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The Crane Collection of 18th Century English Porcelain
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An early Bow two-handled sauceboat
circa 1750-52
Of pointed oval, double-lipped shape, the S-scroll handles with very stylised mask thumbrests, painted in bright blue with a bird perched on the trunk of a flowering tree, a rock and a peony alongside, a diaper border around the inner rim, 18.1cm long
Of pointed oval, double-lipped shape, the S-scroll handles with very stylised mask thumbrests, painted in bright blue with a bird perched on the trunk of a flowering tree, a rock and a peony alongside, a diaper border around the inner rim, 18.1cm long
Sold for
£1,020
inc. premium
Footnotes
- A very similar example was in the Watney Collection, part 3, lot 838. Another from the John Riley Collection was sold in these rooms 11 December 2002, lot 125. For a pair of similar shape in Imari colouring see Gabszewicz and Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), fig. 68.
Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics
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