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Lot 138

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

Sold for £1,800 inc. premium

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A rare pair of shell sweetmeats

circa 1762-64
attributed to Vauxhall, formed from upturned shells supported by three smaller shells picked out in puce, salmon pink, blue, iron red and yellow, smaller encrustations applied at the junctions, 13cm wide (top of one shell broken and restuck) (2)

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These models are similar to individual shell sweetmeat dishes made at Bow, but the curiously bright palette is very different. It resembles the colouring used on a series of late Vauxhall figures, including small seasons with have close parallels in Plymouth porcelain. Shell sweetmeat dishes of this type were also made at Plymouth, see F Severne Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, plate 35, fig 59. See Gabszewicz and Freeman, Bow Porcelain, fig 42, p 42 for the Bow version

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