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Lot 244

Five Vauxhall saucers, circa 1755-58

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £937.50 inc. premium

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Five Vauxhall saucers, circa 1755-58

Painted in blue in Chinese style, one with a pine tree beside a fence, within a diaper border, 11.6cm diam, one an extremely rare saucer of unusually large size with a hut on an island, the border with sgraffito and diaper panels, 14.3cm diam (cracked and restored), one with a river landscape, a boat in the foreground, 11.7cm diam, one with a fisherman on an island, 11.7cm diam, the last with two figures on an island, 11.6cm diam (chipped) (5)

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Provenance:
Simon Spero 1994 (large saucer only)
Garrick Bond Collection

Two saucers from the Liane Richards Collection with the same designs as the first two mentioned were sold by Bonhams, 13 April 2016, lot 126

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