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Lot 254

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

Sold for £1,800 inc. premium

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An exceptionally rare Liverpool porcelain benitier or Holy Water stoup

circa 1780
probably John Pennington's factory, crisply modelled as a crucifix with details picked out in underglaze blue, above a reeded semi-circular bowl painted with a simple Chinese landscape, 22.6cm (top of crucifix broken and restored)

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According to Dr Peter Constable's paper, The Manufacture of British Holy Water Stoups, ECC Trans., vol. 18, part 2, there is no surviving evidence for their manufacture in Protestant England before 1800. Creamware stoups were made for export at Leeds, Don and Castleford, and subsequently Wedgwood also made earthenware stoups for the export trade. No early porcelain example has hitherto been recorded

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