A Lowestoft blue and white inscribed rectangular tea-caddy and cover

CIRCA 1765, PAINTER'S 5 TO BASE

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A Lowestoft blue and white inscribed rectangular tea-caddy and cover
Circa 1765, painter's 5 to base
Painted with chinoiserie vignettes of an Oriental fishing and another before a bridge in a garden within crisply moulded flowerhead and foliage cartouches, inscribed Single Tea within a roundel to one end and inscribed S T to the other, the canted corners and shoulders painted with flower-sprays, the cylindrical cover with a swimming duck, the edges with a scroll and flowerhead border
5 3/8in. (12.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. the pair of tea-caddies sold in these Rooms on 1 June 1987, lot 217 and the single example sold in these Rooms on 10 February 1986, lot 259. See also Geoffery A. Godden, Lowestoft Porcelain (1969), pl. 40. All have painter's numeral 5 and may have been painted by the same hand. See also Sheena Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum (1975), no. 554, for an example inscribed 'B. Tea' and 'Super Fine', which may be of slightly earlier date.

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