Lot 252
A rare Limehouse sauceboat, circa 1746-48
18 May 2011, 10:30 BST
New Bond StreetSold for £6,240 inc. premium
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A rare Limehouse sauceboat, circa 1746-48
Of silver form with a shaped rim and a scroll-moulded handle, the three paw feet with applied mask terminals, painted in pale blue with a chinaman flanked by tall rockwork, the reverse with a similar seated figure, the interior with a staghunting scene, a border of freely painted shells and flowers below the interior rim, 19cm long (handle broken and restuck, end of thumbrest lacking)
Footnotes
Provenance. The Godden Reference Collection, The Watney Collection, Part II, lot 542. Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour pls 14 and 15 and pls 83-84, and Godden's New Guide to English Porcelain (2004), pl 120. A waster painted with part of the Chinese hunting scene was found on the factory site, see Limehouse Ware Revealed (1993), fig 80 and fig 81 for another sauceboat painted with the same scene.