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Lot 125

A Vauxhall plate and a saucer dish, circa 1755

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Vauxhall plate and a saucer dish, circa 1755

Painted in blue, the plate with a willow tree and a large flowering plant, a border of diaper and sgraffito panels around the cavetto, and narrower band inside the rim, 22.2cm diam (rim chip), the saucer dish with a Chinese figure on a promontory, a pine tree behind and a fisherman in a boat before him, 19.7cm diam (chipped, broken and restuck) (2)

Footnotes

For a plate with the same central design see Massey, Marno and Spero, Ceramics of Vauxhall (2007), no 154. For painting in similar style to the saucer dish see two fine examples sold by Bonhams on 31 October 2001, lot 80 and 10 May 2006, lot 124.

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