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Lot 127
A Lowestoft butter tureen, cover and stand, circa 1760-65
30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Lowestoft butter tureen, cover and stand, circa 1760-65
Of oval form, crisply moulded with a wide band of vertical ribs, the cover with a finial in the form of a songbird perched upon a stump, its plumage delicately picked out in blue, the borders with flower heads and scrollwork left in the white against a blue ground, a fisherman within a Chinese landscape painted in blue in the centre of the stand, stand 18.8cm wide, painter's numeral 5 inside footrim of tureen, stand with indistinct number (some damages) (3)
Footnotes
A similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft (1981), fig 172, p 126 and by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl 52, p 63. Another stand with a different border design is shown at pl 51 and a vase with the same bird finial at pl 36. The same shape of tureen also occurs with a globular finial, see Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, 1975 Vol 1, no 634. A stand was sold in these rooms on 18 September 1996, lot 276
