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Lot 189

A very rare Vauxhall milk jug, circa 1756-58

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A very rare Vauxhall milk jug, circa 1756-58

Of pear shape with an elaborate scrolled handle, moulded in relief with rococo panels reserved on a strap-fluted ground flanked by flowering branches and surmounted by doves, each painted in blue with a diaper design, a border below the rim with diaper and sgraffito panels, the handle with stylised cornflower motifs, 9.6cm high (small rim chip)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Albert Amor Ltd 1997
Garrick Bond Collection

Illustrated in Ceramics of Vauxhall, ECC 2007, p.78, no.128. Another example of the same shape, the panels similarly picked out with a blue line, is illustrated by Bernard Watney, The Vauxhall China Works, ECC Trans, Vol.13, Pt.3, pl. 202(a). The unusual stylised cornflower motifs on the handle are a Vauxhall feature. A closely related form with similar moulding is also found at Worcester.

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