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Lot 398

A rare Lowestoft model of a swan, circa 1790

14 November 2018, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Lowestoft model of a swan, circa 1790

Modelled with an elegantly arched neck and delicately moulded wings held close to its body, its face and beak picked out in orange and black, 6cm high

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Provenance
Hotblack Collection
Brian Wood Collection

Exhibited in the English Ceramic Circle 1948 Exhibition, no.475 and illustrated in the catalogue at pl.108. Shards matching the swan's right wing were found on the factory site in 1903-4 and are illustrated by Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum (1985), pl.20. Another swan is shown at pl.19b

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