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Lot 124
An important Lowestoft cane handle, circa 1760
30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,960 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistAn important Lowestoft cane handle, circa 1760
The sides painted in blue with a flowering stem, an insect, an island and two tiny figures in a small boat, the upper surface with a comical bird in flight beside a flowering plant issuing from rockwork, 4.7cm high
Footnotes
Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains, pl 2, p17, and by Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft (1981), figs 79a and b, pps 68 and 69. No other Lowestoft cane handle appears to have been recorded. The flower painting is closely related to that on an important Hughes type bowl in Norwich Castle Museum dated 1761 and illustrated by Christopher Spencer, op cit, fig 4, p 21.
