Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

An important early Vauxhall beaker, circa 1754-55 image 1
An important early Vauxhall beaker, circa 1754-55 image 2
Lot 187

An important early Vauxhall beaker, circa 1754-55

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our British Ceramics specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

An important early Vauxhall beaker, circa 1754-55

Painted in bright blue in Chinese Transitional style with a group of buildings on a hillside below a clump of European trees, the island landscape continuing to the reverse, including a fisherman in a sampan, 7.2cm high, pseudo Chinese character marks

Footnotes

Provenance:
Albert Amor, 18th Century English Chinoiserie Porcelain Exhibition 1990
Billie Pain Collection, sold by Bonhams, 26 November 2003, lot 284
Garrick Bond Collection

Illustrated in Ceramics of Vauxhall, ECC 2007, p.68, no.96. This important beaker is among the very earliest pieces of Vauxhall porcelain and is similar to the vase and cover exhibited by Simon Spero, Exhibition 2001, no 40, illustrated by him in Vauxhall Porcelain - A Tentative Chronology, ECC Trans, Vol.18, Pt.2, p.361. Both exhibit a bright blue colour, lack of plasticity in the paste and a distinctive pooling of the glaze.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A London delftware 'Bleu Persan' mug, circa 1680-1700

A Wrotham slipware tyg by George Richardson, dated 1648

A London delftware fuddling cup, circa 1630-50

An English delftware barber's bowl, circa 1700-20

A rare English delftware bird feeder, dated 1751

An English delftware teapot and cover, circa 1750

A rare Elers Brothers redware mug, circa 1695

A Staffordshire solid agate teapot and cover, circa 1750

A Staffordshire white saltglaze teapot and cover, circa 1750

A rare Staffordshire white saltglaze teapot and cover, circa 1750

A Yorkshire pearlware frog mug from the 'Portrait Group', dated 1781

A Staffordshire creamware cauliflower coffee pot and a cover, circa 1760-80

A Chelsea figure group of the Tyrolean Dancers, circa 1756

An exceptional St James's (Charles Gouyn) white figure group of Europa and the Bull, circa 1750-52

A good Vauxhall group of Hercules and the Nemean lion, circa 1756-58

A Plymouth model of a lion, circa 1768-70

A very rare Chelsea white model of a sphinx, circa 1750

A Chelsea 'Fable' saucer, circa 1752-53

A rare Chelsea small dish, circa 1752-53