A LOWESTOFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED OVIFORM TEAPOT and a cover, inscribed A · Maria Camm/Lancham ex dono I:M:/Oldton/1771 within a shaped oval scroll cartouche, the reverse with a loose bouquet and scattered flowers and insects, beneath a flowering foliage border, the cover with a loose bouquet and insects within a hatched border reserved with demi-flowerheads (minute chip to tip of spout), painter's numeral 5, 1771

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A LOWESTOFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED OVIFORM TEAPOT and a cover, inscribed A · Maria Camm/Lancham ex dono I:M:/Oldton/1771 within a shaped oval scroll cartouche, the reverse with a loose bouquet and scattered flowers and insects, beneath a flowering foliage border, the cover with a loose bouquet and insects within a hatched border reserved with demi-flowerheads (minute chip to tip of spout), painter's numeral 5, 1771
16cm. high overall (2)

Provenance

Wallace Elliott Collection, sale Sotheby's, 26 May 1938, lot 358
The Reverend C.J. Sharp, sale Sotheby's, 1 March 1955, lot 84

Literature

Frank Tilley, op. cit., pl. XXI, no. 97
Geoffrey A. Godden, Lowestoft Porcelain, pl. 85

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