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Lot 221
A good pair of Lowestoft bottle vases circa 1780
14 April 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,360 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA good pair of Lowestoft bottle vases
circa 1780
With neatly turned feet and turned and everted rims, painted in Mandarin style with a man smoking a pipe, seated cross-legged beneath a tree, a vase of flowers on a table beside him, another figure before him with a bird perched on his raised right hand, a red and black border of stylised flowers and diaper below the rim, 12cm high (rim chips) (2)
With neatly turned feet and turned and everted rims, painted in Mandarin style with a man smoking a pipe, seated cross-legged beneath a tree, a vase of flowers on a table beside him, another figure before him with a bird perched on his raised right hand, a red and black border of stylised flowers and diaper below the rim, 12cm high (rim chips) (2)
Footnotes
A mug of the same pattern is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985). pl 191 (right), p 155
