Lot 127 An extraordinary Limehouse vase, circa 1746-48
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An extraordinary Limehouse vase, circa 1746-48
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Of beaker form and diamond section, moulded to both sides with a grotesque mask with protruding ears and tongue, and wide round eyes, forming a bird-like face when viewed from the sides, moulded with overlapping acanthus leaves, the details picked out in blue, 20.5cm high
Footnotes
Provenance
Richard Miller Collection;
Bunny and Paul Davies Collection, Simon Spero exhibition, 2013, no.27
Literature
Jones, Ray, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain, 2018, p.214
White, Mary, Living at the Whites' House, Vol.4, 2023, p.353
This extraordinarily wacky vase is one of the most celebrated forms made at Limehouse. A sherd from a similar vase was found on the factory site and is illustrated in both the ECC's Limehouse Ware Revealed, 1993, p.42, fig.88 and by Kieron Tyler and Roy Stephenson, The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory, 2000, p.44, fig.58 alongside another similar vase from the Watney Collection. This vase is illustrated again by Bernard Watney, , 1973, pl.44c (as Liverpool) and was sold by Phillips on 10 May 2000, lot 530. Mary White discusses the possible inspiration for the design, comparing it to a drawing of a Chinese jade with remarkably similar features and ears which also become a beak when turned to its side. However, no Chinese prototype has been found and the design therefore appears to be unique to England.
The same form is also found in saltglaze stoneware, though in a much smaller size, and it is possible that a Staffordshire potter working at Limehouse may have been responsible for the design, see Ray Jones, , 2018, p.214. A white saltglaze stoneware example from the Willett Collection in the British Museum (inv. no.1887,0210.155) is illustrated by Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson, , 2005, p.100, fig.96, alongside another Limehouse vase, col. pl.66, where the authors state that the Limehouse version may have instead come first. Whatever the case, this is not the only form found in Staffordshire saltglaze which was also produced at Limehouse, see for example the model of a cat sold by Bonhams on 27 November 2024, lot 174. Compare the overlapping leaf moulding to the Limehouse scent bottle sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2010, lot 121 and that illustrated by Ray Jones, 2018, p.213.
Footnotes
Provenance
Richard Miller Collection;
Bunny and Paul Davies Collection, Simon Spero exhibition, 2013, no.27
Literature
Jones, Ray, The Origins of Worcester Porcelain, 2018, p.214
White, Mary, Living at the Whites' House, Vol.4, 2023, p.353
This extraordinarily wacky vase is one of the most celebrated forms made at Limehouse. A sherd from a similar vase was found on the factory site and is illustrated in both the ECC's Limehouse Ware Revealed, 1993, p.42, fig.88 and by Kieron Tyler and Roy Stephenson, The Limehouse Porcelain Manufactory, 2000, p.44, fig.58 alongside another similar vase from the Watney Collection. This vase is illustrated again by Bernard Watney, , 1973, pl.44c (as Liverpool) and was sold by Phillips on 10 May 2000, lot 530. Mary White discusses the possible inspiration for the design, comparing it to a drawing of a Chinese jade with remarkably similar features and ears which also become a beak when turned to its side. However, no Chinese prototype has been found and the design therefore appears to be unique to England.
The same form is also found in saltglaze stoneware, though in a much smaller size, and it is possible that a Staffordshire potter working at Limehouse may have been responsible for the design, see Ray Jones, , 2018, p.214. A white saltglaze stoneware example from the Willett Collection in the British Museum (inv. no.1887,0210.155) is illustrated by Diana Edwards and Rodney Hampson, , 2005, p.100, fig.96, alongside another Limehouse vase, col. pl.66, where the authors state that the Limehouse version may have instead come first. Whatever the case, this is not the only form found in Staffordshire saltglaze which was also produced at Limehouse, see for example the model of a cat sold by Bonhams on 27 November 2024, lot 174. Compare the overlapping leaf moulding to the Limehouse scent bottle sold by Bonhams on 1 December 2010, lot 121 and that illustrated by Ray Jones, 2018, p.213.
