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A fine Lowestoft tea canister and cover, circa 1760-62

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Lot 372
A fine Lowestoft tea canister and cover, circa 1760-62

Sold for £ 10,200 (US$ 12,825) inc. premium

Fine British Pottery and Porcelain

18 May 2011, 10:30 BST

London, New Bond Street

A fine Lowestoft tea canister and cover, circa 1760-62
Of large size and rectangular form with canted corners, moulded in 'Hughes' style with panels edged with scrollwork, flowers and leaves, painted in blue with a Chinaman pointing to a bird in a tree, the reverse with a fisherman on an island, inscribed on one end 'Singlo Tea', 'S' and 'T' on the other, a lattice border above the foot and a 'scroll and flower' border below the shoulder, the cover charmingly painted with a duck swimming beside bulrushes, 13.6cm high, marked with painter's number 5 (2)

Footnotes

  • Provenance: The Godden Reference Collection. Illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, English Blue and White Porcelain (2004), colour pl 76, p 285 and pl 340, p 280. A pair of related tea canisters from The Godden Reference Collection was sold in these rooms on 30 June 2010. The inscriptions on the ends of these canisters indicates the type of tea each was intended to contain, 'Singlo' in this case. Such canisters may have been designed to fit within a wooden tea caddy. Examples retaining their original covers are exceedingly rare.
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