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Lot 118

A fine Lowestoft saucer dish, circa 1759-63

30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A fine Lowestoft saucer dish, circa 1759-63

Of shallow circular form, painted in bright blue with a comical bird in flight beside a tall flowering plant, the border with diaper panels and half flowerheads, 18.2cm diam, painter's numeral 3 inside footrim (cracked)

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Provenance: The Hunting Collection, and the Watney Collection. Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), endpapers and colour plate 78. This dish is one of a pair. The other is illustrated by Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Vol I (1975), no 250 and by Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft (1981), fig 126, p 102. The distinctive style in which the flowerheads are painted is replicated in a sugar bowl and cover with bird finial in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl 47, p 61 and in a vase and cover, also from the Hunting Collection, shown at pl 36, p 54. A close examination of this early style of floral painting is conducted by Christopher Spencer, op cit, pps 28-30. A related fragment from the factory site is shown at fig 25.

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