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Lot 37

An important Limehouse small teapot, circa 1746-48

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

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An important Limehouse small teapot, circa 1746-48

Of slightly compressed globular form, painted in blue in European style with a fashionably dressed lady angler, a fisherman to the left with his back to her, leaning against a stone wall built behind a classical column, the reverse with a lady holding a fan, a similar wall and a stone folly before her, a fisherman and a castle in the distance, 8.5cm high (cover lacking, handle and end of spout restored, fine crazing)

Footnotes

Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour plates 18 and 19 and pls 91 and 92, p 89. This teapot is one of four with provenance to the Earls Fitzwilliam of Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, purchased as part of a single lot in 1948. This pot and two others were then purchased by Geoffrey Godden from his father for the sum of £11. See the footnote to the previous lot in this sale. The combination of classical follies and elegantly attired European figures is also found on the Limehouse vase and cover, lot 47 in this sale. For another Limehouse teapot and cover of small size, see the Watney Collection, pt 3, lot 909

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