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An exceptionally rare Lund's Bristol covered bowl, circa 1750-51 image 1
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Lot 48

An exceptionally rare Lund's Bristol covered bowl, circa 1750-51

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

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An exceptionally rare Lund's Bristol covered bowl, circa 1750-51

The simple circular bowl with a flared lip designed to hold the plain domed cover with its pointed mushroom finial, painted in blue with a seated Chinese figure pointing and holding a parasol, beside a willow tree with flowers and leaves issuing from rockwork, the reverse with a sampan with a sail, islands with pylon trees and dark dotted mountain peaks, also floating rocks and a 'three dot' motif, the cover with the 'Union Jack House' design of a formal pavilion on an island, a figure fishing from a sampan and further dotted peaks, floating rocks and three dot motifs, the bowl 11.2cm diam, 9cm high overall (two short, fine cracks in the cover) (2)

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This extraordinary bowl brings together a number of motifs used at Bristol and continued at Worcester in its earliest years. The building seen on the cover is closely related to two early coffee cups, one in the Watney Collection Part 2, lot 557, the other in the British Museum inscribed under the base TB 1753. This design was designated 'The Union Jack House' by Branyan, French and Sandon (1981/1989) pattern I.B.1. A related figure with a parasol is seen on a Bristol vase in the A J Smith Collection illustrated by Simon Spero, Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain (2005), fig. 13. The body and glaze on this covered bowl has all the appearance of Lund's Bristol porcelain, although it is also conceivable this is one of the first productions made at Worcester.

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