With the rare 'Moulding B', of hexagonal shape, the exterior embossed with a continuous Chinese landscape including on the front a curious tiered tree and a pavilion behind a terraced fence, the reverse with a further tall pavilion, the interior rim with underglaze blue flower sprays and with a pineapple motif within the lip, 11.3cm long, workman's mark inside the base
Footnotes
Provenance
With Jupiter Antiques, 2018
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol. 3, 2022, p. 354, fig. c
A classification of the many Wigornia creamboat mouldings was attempted by Dr Paul Riley, 'A Review of Wigornia Cream jugs', ECC Trans, Vol. 13, Pt. 3, 1989. Riley recorded only one blue and white example of 'Moulding B', the landscape unusually picked out in blue.