Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Anton Gabszewicz Collection
Lot 130
A Bow finger bowl and a jug, circa 1749-55
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£700 - £1,000
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Fergus Gambon
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Jim Peake
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A Bow finger bowl and a jug, circa 1749-55
The finger bowl of gently waisted form with a lobed rim, painted in the Imari palette with trailing flowering branches and holed rockwork in underglaze blue, red and gold, blue florets below the interior rim, 7.4cm high, incised 'R' mark, red painter's mark, the large jug of baluster form, similarly decorated with a flowerhead and diaper border, 16cm high, painter's numeral 4 (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
Rev'd David Thornton Collection (jug)
With Roderick Jellicoe (finger bowl)
Judy and Phelps Bell Collection, Bonhams, 20 November 2019, lot 212 (finger bowl)
Anton Gabszewicz Collection
Literature
Anton Gabszewicz and Jacqui Pearce, 'Bow porcelain revealed: finds from excavations in High Street, Stratford, 2006, Part II', ECC Trans, Vol.32 (2021-22), fig.32:1 (finger bowl)
A similar pair of finger bowls is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), no.69.