Lot 20
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A PAIR OF BOW APPLE BOXES AND COVERS
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A PAIR OF BOW APPLE BOXES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1758, PAINTER'S NUMERAL 1 IN MANGANESE TO UNDERSIDE OF ONE COVER

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A PAIR OF BOW APPLE BOXES AND COVERS
CIRCA 1758, PAINTER'S NUMERAL 1 IN MANGANESE TO UNDERSIDE OF ONE COVER
Each naturally modelled and coloured and streaked in green, yellow and puce, with a brown handle issuing four leaf terminals, with a brown stalk and two leaves to the side (one handle restored, some minor flaking)
Each 3 in. (7.7 cm.) wide (2)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

See the similar example from the Marquess of Bath's Collection, Longleat, sold in these Rooms on 13th - 14th June 2002, lot 356.

See also Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of English Porcelain Earthenware Enamels etc, Collected by Charles Schreiber, Esq., M.P. and The Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Catalogue, Vol. I, Porcelain (London, 1915), p. 46. no. 259, pl. 34 where a similar box and cover is listed as Chelsea.

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