Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Anton Gabszewicz Collection
Lot 144
A rare Bow 'mushroom-glazed' sauceboat, circa 1747-49
19 November 2025, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£1,000 - £1,500
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Jim Peake
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A rare Bow 'mushroom-glazed' sauceboat, circa 1747-49
Of bellied form, set on three paw feet with lion mask terminals, the unusual 'flying' handle with a leaf-moulded thumbrest and picked out with brown pencilled foliate decoration, the interior painted in a famille rose palette with a flowering branch and insect in flight below a red formal border, two further pendent branches to the exterior, 20.2cm long, 13cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Anton Gabszewicz Collection
Literature
Anton Gabszewicz, 'Rococo Bow Porcelain', in Charles Dawson (ed.), Scrolls of Fantasy, The Rococo Ceramics in England (2015), p.156, fig.4
The colour palette and particularly the bright yellow centres to some of the flowers occur on other pieces of this 'drab' or 'mushroom' class, which link 'A' marked porcelain to Bow's output from 1749-50 onwards.
The leaf-capped flying scroll handle is derived from contemporary silver, an example with hoof feet by John Pollock hallmarked London 1750 was sold by Bonhams on 6 June 2006, lot 429. Nicholas Panes illustrates two related Bow examples in British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th century (2009), pp.66-67, figs.94-97.