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A LOWESTOFT BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL TEA-CANISTER
CIRCA 1765
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A LOWESTOFT BLUE AND WHITE OCTAGONAL TEA-CANISTER
CIRCA 1765
Painted with trailing flowers and a flower-spray, beneath a blue border with half-flowerheads and edged with foliage scrolls, the top with two flower-sprays and insects (slight chip to footrim)
3½ in. (8.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Anon., sale Bonhams, 7th June 2002, lot 105.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium
Lot Essay
Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains, (Woodbridge, second edition, 1985), pl. 65 (right).