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Watney Collection, Bonhams sale, 10 May 2000, Lot 539
Nicholas Panes Collection
Illustrated by Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats (2009), p.48, figs.65 and 66. Exhibited in the ECC Exhibition 2006, no.13. Limehouse sauceboats of this shape are found in plain form and in several different moulded variations. A sauceboat with similar moulding and decoration from the Susi and Ian Sutherland Collection was sold by Bonhams on 3 October 2007, lot 98. For a fragment of a lion mask and paw foot from a sauceboat excavated at the factory site, see The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory, MOLAS Monograph 6 (2000), p.41, fig.45.