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An important Limehouse teapot and cover, circa 1746-48 image 1
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Lot 36

An important Limehouse teapot and cover, circa 1746-48

The Geoffrey Godden Collection of Blue and White Porcelain
30 June 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £33,600 inc. premium

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An important Limehouse teapot and cover, circa 1746-48

Of octagonal shape with a scrolled handle and a mushroom finial, painted in blue with a Chinaman seated beneath a willow tree, flanked by rockwork and other plants, the same figure repeated on the reverse, typical leaf-like motifs painted on and near the spout and handle, the cover with a flowering rose bush, 11.7cm high (minute chip to tip of spout) (2)

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This teapot and cover is one of four Limehouse examples included in a lot sold by Christie's on 14 October 1948 from the contents of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, the seat of the Earls Fitzwilliam. They were described as '..probably Lowestoft...' and the lot, which also included a pair of sauceboats and a mug, sold for 22 guineas. The buyer was David Manheim, who sold the teapots on to Geoffrey Godden's father, mindful of his son's interest in Lowestoft. Geoffrey was then able to buy three of the teapots from his father for £11. The fourth was sold and is now in the George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto. All four are illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004). The present lot is colour pl. 16 and pl 87. The cover is shown in detail at pl 88, p 85 where it is mentioned that the cover may not match the body decoration. The Toronto example painted with the same design is shown at pl. 89 and another with Buddhistic emblems at colour pl 17 and pl 90. A fourth example is the following lot in this sale and is shown at colour pls. 18 and 19. These Wentworth Woodhouse teapots are discussed at length on pp. 84-93. See also Geoffrey Godden, Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain, A Selection from the Godden Reference Collection (1985), Chapter 4 and Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), pl 45, p 32 and pls 47 and 48 for related fragments. This lot is illustrated alongside further related shards by David Barker and Sam Cole (ed), Digging for Early Porcelain, fig 16, p 50, and it is also illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, An Introduction to English Blue and White Porcelains (1974), pl. 19, fig. 94 and British Porcelain, an Illustrated Guide (1974), pl. 319. For other Limehouse teapots sold in these rooms see the Watney Collection, Part 1, lot 129 and Part 3, lot 909, also the Sutherland Collection, lot 104.

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