SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY VAUXHALL, GLASSHOUSE STREET POTTERY

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AN ENGLISH DELFT POLYCHROME CHAMBER-POT
SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY VAUXHALL, GLASSHOUSE STREET POTTERY
Of circular form with a flattened scroll handle, painted in blue, green and iron-red with stylised chinoiserie flowers issuing from grassy mounds below a key-pattern band, the rim with a blue line and dash- ornament (cracked through lower handle terminal, minor glaze flaking)
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous; Sotheby's, London, 16 October 1990, lot 109.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D415.

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Lot Essay

For two saucers painted with the same pattern found at the site of the Glasshouse Street pottery, Vauxhall, see Roger Massey et. al., Ceramics of Vauxhall, 18th Century Pottery and Porcelain, London, 2007, p. 26.
For a near identical chamber-pot decorated in underglaze blue, see the example sold Anonymous; Christie's, London, 13 June 1983, lot 39a.

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