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Lot 128

A Lowestoft butter tub, cover and stand, circa 1762

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

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A Lowestoft butter tub, cover and stand, circa 1762

Of oval form with pierced twin lug handles, moulded in relief with panels edged with scrollwork, flanked by flowers and leaves, the side panels painted in blue with a fisherman by a fence and a willow tree, and a bridge between two islands, the stand with a pagoda on an island, floral sprays in the border, stand 18.8cm wide, painter's numeral 5 on tub, indistinct painter's numeral on stand possibly 2 (stand with small patches of staining) (3)

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The butter tub is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, An Introduction to English Blue and White Porcelains (1974), pl. 13, fig. 70, British Porcelain, An Illustrated Guide (1974), pl. 341, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl 60, p 67, and English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), pl 339, p 279. The tub, cover and stand is illustrated at pl 341, p 280. The stand alone is shown in Lowestoft Porcelains, op cit, pl 62, p 68, alongside an apparently similar example which displays some differences in the moulded detail. Interestingly, the two halves of the plaster of Paris mould used to make the tub have been placed together incorrectly, resulting in the moulded flowers growing downwards on one side and upwards on the other

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