Lot Essay
Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden Lowestoft Porcelains, (1885), p. 73, pl. 71, for a similar example.
Details
A Lowestoft blue and white oval butterboat
moulded with lobed panels below scroll rims, painted with a vignette of two figures by a tree, the reverse with flowers above stylised rockwork, the interior with flowers issuing from diaper-pattern panels, painter's numeral 7, circa 1765 (some minor glaze flakes and staining to rim) -- 11cm. long
See illustration
moulded with lobed panels below scroll rims, painted with a vignette of two figures by a tree, the reverse with flowers above stylised rockwork, the interior with flowers issuing from diaper-pattern panels, painter's numeral 7, circa 1765 (some minor glaze flakes and staining to rim) -- 11cm. long
See illustration
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