A Bow silver-shaped oval sauceboat

CIRCA 1748-50

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A Bow silver-shaped oval sauceboat
Circa 1748-50
With scroll handle and three animal mask and paw feet, the exterior with flowering branches enriched in overglaze blue, green, pink, yellow brown and black enamel colours, the interior painted with insects and flower-sprays (slight chips to applied flowers and foliage, some mis-firing to glaze)
6½in. (16.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Cf. the example illustrated by Elizabeth Adams, Bow Porcelain (1981), p. 118 and 119, pl. 42. See also Armin B. Allen, The Henry C. and Martha L. Isaacson Collection of English, French and Italian Porcelain, Catalogue (June 1989), no. 16. Another similar, but with raised C-scroll handle was in the collection of Dr. John Ainslie, sale Sotheby's, 7 March 1961, lot 67.

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