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Of cylindrical shape, with a distinctive leaf and twig handle, painted in 'Castle Painter' style with colourful ruins and a bridge, a smaller island with an obelisk or folly by a country house, 6cm high, painter's letter 'C' in enamel
Footnotes
Provenance
Simon Spero exhibition, 1989, no.18;
Billie Pain Collection, Bonhams, 26 November 2003, lot 83
Literature
White, Mary, Drinking at the Whites' House, Vol.2, 2021, p.324, fig.b
Exhibited
Dreweatt Neate, 18th Century English Porcelain 1996 Loan Exhibition, no.33;
City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Digging for Early Porcelain, 1998, no.41;
International Ceramics Fair and Seminar 1999 Loan Exhibition, no.26
The naturalistic handle form with acidic green leafy terminals is unique to Longton Hall and hints at the larger leaf dishes and hollow forms for which the factory is known.