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Margaret Corson
Flowerday Collection
Shards matching the swan's right wing were found at the Lowestoft factory site in 1903-04 and are illustrated by Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Vol.2 (1985), pl.20. A version with the eyes and beak picked out in enamels from the Brian Wood Collection was sold by Bonhams on 14 November 2018, lot 398. Further polychrome 'sepia' examples are illustrated and discussed by John Howell, Lowestoft Manganese-Decorated Animals, ECC Trans, Vol.13, Pt.3 (1989), p.182 and pl.165(b), who suggests that this decoration was intended to mimic the downy feathers of cygnets.