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Lot 121

A Lowestoft sauceboat and a corresponding waster, circa 1758-60

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

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A Lowestoft sauceboat and a corresponding waster, circa 1758-60

Of fluted oval form with a scrolled handle and a deep foot moulded with scrollwork, the sides with scroll-moulded panels picked out in blue and flanked by foliate branches, a narrower panel below the pronounced spout, the panels painted with Chinese river scenes including a figure crossing a bridge and another fishing, the interior with flowers, 17.1cm long, painter's numeral 3 inside footrim (rim chips and fine cracks), together with a waster of the same moulding (2)

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Illustrated by Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft (1981), fig 134, p 108 and by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl 38, p 55. Another example of the same shape but with a more elaborate handle is illustrated at pl 37

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