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Lot 29
A rare Vauxhall vase and cover, circa 1753-56
30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,520 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA 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)
Footnotes
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
