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Lot 216

A fine Lowestoft bottle vase, circa 1760

23 June 2021, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A fine Lowestoft bottle vase, circa 1760

Of attractive small size, the globular form with a slender neck and everted rim, painted in blue with a flowering peony and bamboo, the reverse with a strutting bird, its beak open and neck craned towards an insect in flight above, the inner rim with a 'loop and arrow' border, 10.4cm high, painter's numeral 8 inside footrim

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Provenance
Frank Wheeldon Collection, Bonhams sale, 23 January 2008, lot 141

A similar vase is illustrated by Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft (1981), p.64, fig.73. Another from the Asprey Collection, formerly in the collection on Billie Pain, was sold by Bonhams on 2 May 2018, lot 395. Notably, the present lot is of more slender proportions and the everted rim more pronounced and delicate, which is a variation capitalised on by the border being painted just below the inner rather than outer rim.

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