Lot Essay
Only three examples, this and a pair, are illustrated by Francis, ibid., fig. 136, are known. The author suggests they may have been taken from a mould for a Staffordshire white glass example that they closely resemble. This unusual painting style and palette appears on an inscribed and dated bowl of 1756 illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, Vol. I, p. 217, no. 1752, pl. 120A.