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Lot 245

Four Vauxhall saucers, circa 1754-60

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Four Vauxhall saucers, circa 1754-60

Thinly potted and painted in blue in Chinese style, one with the 'Dragon' pattern, the dragon chasing a fiery pearl, the design picked out in sgraffito, 11.7cm diam, one with two figures on an island, the border with solid blue and diaper panels, 11.9cm diam (cracked), and two with an island landscape, both islands supporting various buildings and trees, within zig-zag sgraffito borders, 11.7cm diam (one with rim chips, one cracked) (4)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Simon Spero 1998 (first-mentioned saucer)
Garrick Bond Collection

The first-mentioned saucer is illustrated in Ceramics of Vauxhall, ECC 2007, p.69, no.98. A similar example from the Susi and Ian Sutherland Collection was sold by Bonhams, 3 October 2007, lot 208. The second-mentioned saucer is illustrated at p.70, no.103. A shard of the same pattern as the last-mentioned pair is illustrated by Bernard Watney, The Vauxhall China Works, ECC Trans, Vol.13, pl.197(b)(bottom right).

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