A Liverpool (Shaw's Brow) vase, circa 1760-70
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A finely-painted Liverpool vase, circa 1760-70
Probably Shaw's Brow (Chaffers or Christian factories) or possibly James Pennington, of slender baluster form with a spreading foot, painted in blue with a continuous landscape of two ornate Chinese pavilions amongst trees and oriental figures including a figure on a bridge, birds in flight overhead, 22.7cm high, incised character C or 6 (short fine haircracks in rim)
Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • This shape is well known from a series of Liverpool vases attributed to James Pennington, including a set sold in these rooms 31 October 2001, lot 99 and illustrated by Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain, p.131, fig. 4.115. The same shape was also made at Shaw's Brow and the painting style on the present lot, however, is more typical of the Chaffers/Christian manufactory. The body does have the appearance of a steatitic paste rather than phosphatic.

Category: Decorative Arts / British Ceramics

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