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A fine early Lowestoft sauceboat and a corresponding waster, circa 1760-62 image 1
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Lot 120

A fine early Lowestoft sauceboat and a corresponding waster, circa 1760-62

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

Sold for £4,800 inc. premium

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A fine early Lowestoft sauceboat and a corresponding waster, circa 1760-62

Of elegant silver shape with a gadrooned foot and a band of flutes around the lower section, the pronounced spout moulded with an acanthus leaf on the underside, the sides with scrolled panels painted in blue with Chinoiserie scenes flanked by flowering plants and insects, more boldly painted flowers within the interior, 20.3cm long, painter's numeral 3 inside footrim (fine crack around lower handle terminal)

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Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl 58, p 66, Bernard Watney, English Blue and White Porcelain of the 18th Century (1963), pl 74C and Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft, fig 135, p 108. Although the sauceboat is circa 1760-62, the waster seems to be of a slightly earlier date

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