A pair of Spode 'Lizard bottles and stoppers'
the flask shaped bodies moulded with a bird above a flame and printed, painted and gilt in the famille rose palette with Oreintal figures among flowering branches, pattern 3644, iron-red mark, circa 1830 (one cracked to neck, slight wear) -- 10cm. high See colour plate 12 (2)
Lot Essay
Cf. Leonard Whiter, Spode, (1970), pl. 273 for a miniature coffee can and saucer with the same pattern, sold in these Rooms 26 September 1996 lot 2.