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Lot 86*

A rare pair of Bow 'scale blue' vases, circa 1770

15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare pair of Bow 'scale blue' vases, circa 1770

Of beaker form with gently everted rims, painted on both sides with panels of 'agitated' birds within gilded rococo borders, reserved on a deep scale blue ground, the turned feet gilt with a diaper band, 17.7cm high, 'A' marks in blue (2)

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Provenance
Rous Lench Collection, Christie's sale, 30 May 1990, lot 380 (part)
John Alchin Collection

Bird decoration by this hand also occurs on Worcester and Champion's Bristol porcelain, perhaps suggesting an itinerant painter.

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