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Lot 57

A London delftware teabowl and saucer attributed to Vauxhall, circa 1715-25

31 January 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,750 inc. premium

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A London delftware teabowl and saucer attributed to Vauxhall, circa 1715-25

Neatly potted and of small size, painted in red, blue and green with a cockerel, a formal vase of 'feathers', so-called 'banded hedges' and flowering plants, the saucer 11.4cm diam, the bowl 7.3cm diam (2)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Jonathan Horne, A Collection of English Pottery, Part XIX(1999), no.558
Syd Levethan, Longridge Collection, Christie's sale 11 June 2010, lot 1097

Literature:
Illustrated by Leslie B. Grigsby, the Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware (2000), fig.D325

The pattern was found on the site of the Vauxhall pottery, see Roy Edwards, ECC Trans, Vol.12, Pt.1, pl.56(c & d). A teabowl and saucer with a different version of the same pattern was sold by Bonhams, 7 September 2005, lot 12.

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