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Of rococo scroll-moulded form on a low foot and with a shell-moulded scroll handle with details picked out in blue, reserved to both sides with panels painted in blue with Chinese landscapes, floral sprays below the lip and flanking the handle, shells painted below the upper handle terminal and inside the lip, a border of leaves to the interior rim and a further floral spray to the interior, 14.5cm long
Footnotes
Provenance
Richard Miller Collection, Simon Spero exhibition, 2017, no.32
Literature
Spero, Simon, 'Vauxhall Porcelain - A Tentative Chronology', ECC Trans, Vol.18, Pt.2, 2003, p.371, fig.66;
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.422, fig.b
The complex exuberant form of this sauceboat is undoubtedly influenced by contemporary silver. A similar example is illustrated by Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century, 2009, p.175, fig.288 alongside a later example painted with panels of 'fancy' birds on a blue ground, fig.289. The form was subsequently copied at both Bovey Tracey and in hard paste at Plymouth, see Nicholas Panes, 2009, pp.229-30, figs.376-8. Mary White illustrates the present lot alongside a Plymouth example, where she compares the two. A silver example of related form attributed to Edward Wakelin, circa 1750, is illustrated by Panes, 2009, p.230, fig.379.