Lot 75 A Bow mustard pot and cover, circa 1750-52

A Bow mustard pot and cover, circa 1750-52

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Of squat cylindrical form with a small loop handle, the low cover with a button finial, painted in a vibrant blue with Chinese plants, a peony and willow tree sprouting behind hollow rocks, an insect in flight, below a cloud-scroll border, 7cm high, painter's numerals 30 and 47 to the underside of the base and cover respectively (2)
Footnotes
Provenance
Simon Spero Collection;
Bunny and Paul Davies Collection, Simon Spero exhibition, 2013, no.36
Literature
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.316
This would appear to be one of the earliest examples of a wet mustard pot produced in English porcelain. This form became more plentiful in the late 1750s and into the 1760s, also being made at Worcester and Lowestoft. The cover on the present lot does not have a small reserve to accommodate a spoon, a feature shared by other early examples, see the Worcester example illustrated by Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain: The Klepser Collection, 1984, p.168, fig.197. A very rare Vauxhall mustard pot lacking its cover was sold by Bonhams on 12 November 2014, lot 95.