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Lot 270

A rare Vauxhall sauceboat, circa 1760-62

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £2,000

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A rare Vauxhall sauceboat, circa 1760-62

Moulded on both sides with scrolled panels reserved on a fluted ground, one panel with a wine glass and a decanter and stopper flanking an ovoid vase, the other with three vases of varying forms, a larger vase under the spout, the moulding picked out in blue, sprays of flowers painted round the spout and handle and within the interior, 18.2cm long (fine crack, chip to foot)

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Provenance:
Frank Wheeldon Collection, sold by Bonhams 23 January 2008, lot 48

Illustrated by Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats, p.165, fig.268. Another example with the colouring reversed is shown at fig.269, and also by Simon Spero, Vauxhall Porcelain - A Tentative Chronology, ECC Trans, Vol.18, Pt.2, p.354, fig.12

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