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A Bow blue and white shell salt
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A Bow blue and white shell salt

CIRCA 1752

細節
A Bow blue and white shell salt
Circa 1752
Formed as an upturned shell supported by three further shells on a trefoil rockwork base applied with shells and seaweed, the interior painted with a willow and pierced rockwork beside a fence below a pendant spearhead border (a crack to the rim of the bowl, some chipping and staining)
4¾ in. (12 cm.) wide
注意事項
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

Lady Charlotte Schreiber bought a pair of salts similar to the above lot very early her collecting days, from the Walker's sale at Sotheby's in April 1868, for which she paid the very high price of £4/8/=. See Bernard Rackham Catalogue (1915) (not illustrated), p. 22, no. 90.