Sale 9786
London, South Kensington
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2 October 2003
Price realised
GBP 470
Estimate
A Mason's Ironstone two-handled sugar-bowl, cover and stand Circa 1813 With richly-gilt scroll finial and Oriental shaped handles, painted and gilt with panels of chinoiserie landscapes containing figures and pagodas, on an orange-red ground with blue scrolling arabesques, between gilt borders, the stand similar (rubbing to gilding) 6¾ in. (17 cm.) wide
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Cf. Gaye Blake Roberts, Mason's, The First Two Hundred Years (London, 1996), p. 38, pl. 13, for a bowl and stand of a similar form.
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