Lot 386
A Lowestoft jug, circa 1775
18 May 2011, 10:30 BST
New Bond StreetSold for £840 inc. premium
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A Lowestoft jug, circa 1775
Of pear shape, painted in blue with an elaborate Chinese riverscape, a standing fisherman in the foreground, a house with a veranda and a pagoda-like tower on a large island beneath the spout, the reverse with a sailing boat, a 'lattice and flower type 3' border below the interior rim, 18.2cm high (fine cracks, small restoration to spout)
Footnotes
Provenance: The Godden Reference Collection. A coffee pot and cover of the same pattern is illustrated by Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum Vol I, number 123 and another by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), pl 361, p 293. A bowl of the pattern in the Victoria and Albert Museum is inscribed 'Robert Harper Cantley 1773'