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Lot 29

A rare Vauxhall vase and cover, circa 1753-56

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

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A rare Vauxhall vase and cover, circa 1753-56

Of baluster shape, the domed cover with a mushroom finial, painted in vibrant blue with a continuous Chinese river landscape, including two islands supporting willow and pine trees, one with a pagoda, two sailing boats traversing the channel between them, a panelled diaper and sgraffito border below the rim, 16.1cm high (base restored, chips to rim and cover)

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Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour pl 48, p 175, and pl 232, p 188 and on the spine of the dust jacket. Also illustrated by Massey, Marno and Spero, Ceramics of Vauxhall (2007), fig 70, p 61. The Delft-like painting is typical of Vauxhall painting from the mid 1750s. The same finial is found on Vauxhall teapots, see Geoffrey Godden, op cit, pl 219, p 182. Baluster vases were a speciality of the factory

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