Lot 72 An important Limehouse vase and cover, circa 1746-48
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An important Limehouse vase and cover, circa 1746-48
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Of baluster form, finely painted in blue with a finely dressed couple walking arm-in-arm in a continuous European landscape containing three follies, including a pedestal, a pyramid and a pair of neoclassical ruined columns, a figure with his back turned beside a tree before them, various buildings visible on distant hilltops, the domed cover and turned finial, painted with a ruinous column atop a stone plinth, 12.2cm high (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
With Sheila Davies, Venners Antiques, 1983;
Geoffrey Godden Collection, Bonhams, 3 June 2010, lot 47
Literature
Godden, Geoffrey, English Blue and White Porcelain, 2004, p.86, col. pl.20 and p.92, pl.93;
White, Mary, Drinking at the Whites' House, Vol.2, 2021, p.314, fig.b
This significant vase was one of a pair offered for sale by Sheila Davies in 1983, the other having been bought by Susi and Ian Sutherland and sold by Bonhams on 3 October 2007, lot 101. The latter is illustrated in the ECC's , 1993, p.51, col. pl.VI and by Ray Jones, , 2018, p.227, fig.ix.
Limehouse was the first English factory to employ European landscape and figure decoration in blue on porcelain, and this decoration falls into two distinct groups. One includes diminutive figures in which the emphasis is placed on a landscape framed by trees and buildings, see for example the teapot from the Liane Richards Collection sold by Bonhams on 13 April 2016, lot 95 and illustrated by Ray Jones, 2018, p.226, fig.viii. The other style features large and prominent figures as seen on the present lot. The combination of classical follies and elegantly attired European figures seen here also features on an important Limehouse teapot, clearly by the same hand. This is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, 2004, p.83, col. pls.18 and 19, and p.89, pls.91 and 92 and was sold as part of his collection by Bonhams on 3 June 2010, lot 37.
Both the teapot and the companion vase to the present lot are illustrated by Rosalie Wise Sharp, , Vol.1, 2015, p.174, nos.592 and 593, there described as a tea canister. The style of painting is also closely related to the decoration on the fine Bow jug sold by Phillips as part of the Watney Collection on 22 September 1999, lot 34. The use of classical ruins and of figures whose heads look back over their shoulders are constant features, suggesting that the painter moved to Bow sometime after the closure of the Limehouse factory.
Footnotes
Provenance
With Sheila Davies, Venners Antiques, 1983;
Geoffrey Godden Collection, Bonhams, 3 June 2010, lot 47
Literature
Godden, Geoffrey, English Blue and White Porcelain, 2004, p.86, col. pl.20 and p.92, pl.93;
White, Mary, Drinking at the Whites' House, Vol.2, 2021, p.314, fig.b
This significant vase was one of a pair offered for sale by Sheila Davies in 1983, the other having been bought by Susi and Ian Sutherland and sold by Bonhams on 3 October 2007, lot 101. The latter is illustrated in the ECC's , 1993, p.51, col. pl.VI and by Ray Jones, , 2018, p.227, fig.ix.
Limehouse was the first English factory to employ European landscape and figure decoration in blue on porcelain, and this decoration falls into two distinct groups. One includes diminutive figures in which the emphasis is placed on a landscape framed by trees and buildings, see for example the teapot from the Liane Richards Collection sold by Bonhams on 13 April 2016, lot 95 and illustrated by Ray Jones, 2018, p.226, fig.viii. The other style features large and prominent figures as seen on the present lot. The combination of classical follies and elegantly attired European figures seen here also features on an important Limehouse teapot, clearly by the same hand. This is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, 2004, p.83, col. pls.18 and 19, and p.89, pls.91 and 92 and was sold as part of his collection by Bonhams on 3 June 2010, lot 37.
Both the teapot and the companion vase to the present lot are illustrated by Rosalie Wise Sharp, , Vol.1, 2015, p.174, nos.592 and 593, there described as a tea canister. The style of painting is also closely related to the decoration on the fine Bow jug sold by Phillips as part of the Watney Collection on 22 September 1999, lot 34. The use of classical ruins and of figures whose heads look back over their shoulders are constant features, suggesting that the painter moved to Bow sometime after the closure of the Limehouse factory.
