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1793
Details
A LOWESTOFT BLUE AND WHITE INSCRIBED AND DATED BIRTH-TABLET
1793
Circular and pierced for hanging, painted in a bright blue with huts on a wooded river island to one side, the other inscribed JOHNATHEN DOWNING BORN December 27 1793
2¾ in. (7 cm.) diam.
1793
Circular and pierced for hanging, painted in a bright blue with huts on a wooded river island to one side, the other inscribed JOHNATHEN DOWNING BORN December 27 1793
2¾ in. (7 cm.) diam.
Provenance
F.A. Crisp, sale Sotheby's, 14th February 1935, lot 117.
Mrs Colman, sale Sotheby's, 20th April 1948, lot 70.
Anon., sale in these Rooms, 14th December 1981, lot 93.
Mrs Colman, sale Sotheby's, 20th April 1948, lot 70.
Anon., sale in these Rooms, 14th December 1981, lot 93.
Literature
F.A. Crisp, Catalogue of Lowestoft China, illustrated opposite p. 12.
A.J.B. Kidell, 'Inscribed and Dated Lowestoft Porcelain', E.P.C. Transactions, No. 3 (1931), p. 48.
Geoffrey A. Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains, (Woodbridge, second edition, 1985), p. 234, no. D.167.
A.J.B. Kidell, 'Inscribed and Dated Lowestoft Porcelain', E.P.C. Transactions, No. 3 (1931), p. 48.
Geoffrey A. Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains, (Woodbridge, second edition, 1985), p. 234, no. D.167.
Exhibited
Lowestoft Bicentenary Exhibition, Ipswich, 1957, no. 112.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium