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Lot 115

A Bow sparrow beak jug
circa 1752

14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £900 inc. premium

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A Bow sparrow beak jug

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)

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

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