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A rare Lowestoft saucer dish, circa 1768
23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
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A rare Lowestoft saucer dish, circa 1768
Of plain circular form, fully painted in blue with an unusual Chinese river scene, the steep left-hand bank with a two-storeyed building and a jetty leading to a small hut on stilts, another hut on the far bank and a small boat crossing the river, within a 'lattice and flower' border with one reserve containing a miniature riverscape, three sprigs below the outside rim, 20.7cm diam, painter's numeral 5 inside footrim
Footnotes
Large saucer dishes or 'saucer-shaped plates' are a rare form at Lowestoft. See Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft (1981), pp.102-3, figs.126-7 for two further examples where the author suggests that their rarity might be explained by their often sagged and warped centres, demonstrating difficulties experienced in the firing of this shape. It is notable that the present lot and lot 221 in this sale appear to have largely evaded this fault.