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Of exuberant rococo press-moulded form with trellis and scroll borders, a similar design repeated in miniature around the cavetti, the centres with a complex basketweave pattern, picked out in bright colours and gilding, 25.5cm diam, together with a saltglaze stoneware example with pierced borders, 26.8cm diam (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
Watney Collection, Phillips, 10 May 2000, lot 720 (Vauxhall plate);
With Simon Spero, 2007 (Vauxhall plate)
Literature
Watney, Bernard, 'Four Groups of Porcelain, possibly Liverpool', ECC Trans, Vol.5, Pt.1, 1960, pl.32d;
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, pp.182-3, fig.a
The influence of Staffordshire saltglazed stoneware is clearly seen in this very rare moulded shape which is likely to have been cast from a Staffordshire mould. Mary White illustrates this Vauxhall plate alongside another similar white saltglaze stoneware plate, but the example accompanying it in the present lot is a more exact match. Related shapes were also made at Worcester at this time. For a Vauxhall mug with decoration which may be influenced by saltglaze stoneware, see lot 79 in this sale.