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Lot 212

A very rare Vauxhall saucer dish, circa 1755-57

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,500

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A very rare Vauxhall saucer dish, circa 1755-57

With polychrome printed decoration, the centre with two figures on horseback beside a tree with a broken branch, edged with a gilded band, the border with two flower sprays, scattered sprigs and insects in flight, the rim also gilded, 20.2cm diam (slight wear to gilding only)

Footnotes

One of the floral sprays matches a Vauxhall plate and a figure of Britannia, all shown by Bernard Watney, The Vauxhall China Works, ECC Trans, Vol.13, Pt.3, pl.212. Figural prints are rare at Vauxhall, see Ceramics of Vauxhall, ECC 2007, p.47, no.31 and p.54, no.53 for a bowl and a coffee can with prints from the same series.

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