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Lot 124

8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,760 inc. premium

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A rare Bow kakiemon style butter tub and cover

circa 1755
oval, moulded with rings around the base and foliate lug handles imitating a wooden butter churn, the flat cover with a foliate scroll handle, finely painted in kakiemon style with scrolling peony and chrysanthemum flowers by 'banded hedges', a Japanese boy on one side of the base, a dragon on the cover, the rim with a Chinese export style spearhead design in red and gold, 12.6cm wide (minute chip to rim) (2)

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Illustrated by John Sandon, Phillips Guide to English Porcelain, p. 23. For a dish with a similar banded hedge and dragon see Gabszewicz and Freeman, Bow Porcelain, fig 57

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