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A very rare Lowestoft mug, circa 1760-62 image 1
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Lot 140

A very rare Lowestoft mug, circa 1760-62

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

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A very rare Lowestoft mug, circa 1760-62

Of large size and gentle bell shape with a crisply turned foot, the fine double-scrolled handle moulded with a central rib on the upper part, painted in blue with flowering plants including a trailing peony and an , growing from a ground emphasised with bold crescent-shaped brushstrokes, 15cm high, painter's numeral 3 inside footrim (handle with chip to thumbrest)

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Illustrated by Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft (1981), fig 117, p 95 where it is stated that it is one of very few early examples known. Also by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), pl 329, p 272. A jug with the same exuberant, early and delicately modelled handle form is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), pl 39, p 56.

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