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Lot 38

A Limehouse bottle shaped vase, circa 1746-48

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

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A Limehouse bottle shaped vase, circa 1746-48

The small ovoid bottle with a slender neck, finely painted with flowering peony branches trailing around the body, issuing from curious rockwork, another leafy plant to one side, 11.5cm high

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Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour pl. 23 and pl. 106. Also illustrated in An Introduction to English Blue and White Porcelains (1974), pl. 19, fig. 95 and British Porcelain, an Illustrated Guide (1974), pl. 319. Two other bottles of related type were in the Watney Collection, Part 1, lot 117 and Part 3, lot 907. One of these is illustrated together with a waster of a similar bottle found on the Limehouse site, in Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), figs. 56 and 58 and The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory (2000), figs 60 and 61.

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