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Two Vauxhall coffee cans and a Bow coffee can, circa 1756-60

Fine Glass and British Ceramics
17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two Vauxhall coffee cans and a Bow coffee can, circa 1756-60

One Vauxhall can painted in bright blue with a pine tree growing within a fenced enclosure, the reverse with two banana trees, a cross-hatched border inside the rim, 6.2cm high, the Bow coffee can painted with a similar design, also with two banana trees to the reverse, 6.2cm high (cracked), the other Vauxhall can more thinly potted and of slightly waisted form, painted with a pine tree and a rock, a diaper border inside the rim, 5.4cm high (chipped and cracked, some staining) (3)

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Provenance;
Garrick Bond Collection

The first can is illustrated in Ceramics of Vauxhall, ECC 2007, p.82, no.144 and by Bernard Watney, Four Groups of Porcelain Possibly Liverpool, ECC Trans, Vol.5, Pt.1, pl.29(f)(right). The influence of Bow is sometimes seen on Vauxhall, especially the two banana plants to the reverse. Heart-shaped lower handle terminals, characteristic of Bow, are found on some Vauxhall mugs.

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