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Lot 115
A Bow sparrow beak jug circa 1752
14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £900 inc. premium
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circa 1752
With a plain handle, painted in light blue with a tall pagoda, a 'telegraph pole' tree and a hut with a pointed roof, flanked by outsized flowering plants, 7.8cm high (bruise to rim)
With a plain handle, painted in light blue with a tall pagoda, a 'telegraph pole' tree and a hut with a pointed roof, flanked by outsized flowering plants, 7.8cm high (bruise to rim)
Footnotes
The same pattern is found on an inkpot in Colchester Museum inscribed 'Made at New Canton 1750' and illustrated by Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain (1981), fig 26, p 107
