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Lot 202

A very rare Lowestoft spittoon, circa 1775-80

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A very rare Lowestoft spittoon, circa 1775-80

Of globular shape with a broad everted rim and an unusual double-scrolled handle, printed in blue with large flower sprays and a butterfly, three further floral sprays and a tramline border inside the rim, 11.4cm high, crescent mark

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Provenance
Geoffrey Godden
Peter Scully Collection

Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains (1985), p.26, pl.14. Spittoons are rare at Lowestoft and rarer still with a handle. Both the form and the prints would appear to have been directly inspired by Worcester examples, although the present lot has a particularly exaggerated wide flared rim. A spittoon with a plain loop handle is illustrated by John Howell, Lowestoft From Well Known Collections, ECC Trans, Vol.14, Pt.3 (1992), p.246. An example without a handle was sold by Bonhams on 29 September 2020, lot 193.

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