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Lot 252

Two Vauxhall cups or small mugs, circa 1756-62

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two Vauxhall cups or small mugs, circa 1756-62

Of bell shape, one thinly potted with a plain handle, painted in blue with a Chinese lady and attendant by a pine tree, 5.5cm high (tiny crack and chip), the other with a turned foot and a ridged handle, painted with a pagoda and a pine tree, a solid blue and diaper panelled border inside, 6.2cm high (cracked and chipped) (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Jupiter Antiques 1997 and Simon Spero 1994
Garrick Bond Collection

The first cup is painted with the same pattern as the documentary milk jug inscribed on the base A C A 1756, illustrated by Simon Spero, Vauxhall Porcelain - A Tentative Chronology, ECC Trans, Vol.18, Pt.2, p.351, figs.1 and 2. The second cup is illustrated in Ceramics of Vauxhall, p.80, no.137. The chalky paste, clear glaze and ridged handle suggest a date in the 1760s

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