Sale 6965
London
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6 December 2004
Price realised
GBP 1,076
Estimate
A LOWESTOFT BLUE AND WHITE LOBED OVAL SAUCEBOAT CIRCA 1768, PAINTER'S NUMERAL 5 With loop handle, moulded and enriched in blue with fruit, flowers and foliage, between blue gadrooned rims, the interior with a diaper and flowerhead border 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) long
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Exhibited
Fenichell Basmajian, New York, 1-15 November 2001, no. 109.
Cf. Geoffrey A. Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains, (Woodbridge, second edition, 1985), pl. 69, for a similar example, illustrated with an original plaster mould.
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