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Lot 35
A Limehouse sauceboat, circa 1746-48
30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,000 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Limehouse sauceboat, circa 1746-48
The shallow helmet shape thinly-cast and sharply modelled, raised on three paw feet, the ground moulded with fine pineapple diaper and with two curious face masks flanking the lip, the reserved panels painted in blue with very stylised landscapes, the interior with a dramatic border of shell motifs and feather scrolls, a flowering plant in the centre, 22cm long (broken and cleanly restored with additional filled chips)
Footnotes
Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour pl. 13 and pl. 82. Ths same basic model was made with lion mask and paw feet. Paw feet alone without the lion masks are quite unusual. A glazed fragment of a similar lion mask sauceboat, with the same curious faces on the lip, was found on the Limehouse site and this matches an example in the Watney Collection, see Kieron Tyler et al, The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory (2000), figs. 32 and 47.
