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A important Limehouse vase and cover, circa 1746-48
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Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour plate 20, p 86 and pl 93, p 92. This vase was one of two of similar form and pattern offered for sale by the late Sheila Davis of Venners Antiques. Geoffrey Godden was offered first refusal and chose the example in better condition. The other was purchased by Susi and Ian Sutherland and was sold in these rooms on 3 October 2007, lot 101. This vase is illustrated in Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), colour plate VI. Limehouse was the first English factory to use European figure and landscape decoration on blue and white porcelain. Examples are extremely scarce but include lots 37, 41 and 42 in this sale. Clearly, several hands were involved with this style of painting but both vases and the teapot from Wentworth Woodhouse, lot 37 in this sale, all seem to be by the same hand. The style of painting on these is closely related to that on the fine Bow jug from the Watney Collection, pt 1, lot 34. The use of classical ruins and of figures whose heads look back over their shoulders are constant features, suggesting that the painter moved to Bow sometime after the closure of the Limehouse factory
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