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A Lowestoft butter tub, cover and stand, circa 1762
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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
