Fergus Gambon
Director
Lot 180*
A very rare Bow white sauceboat, circa 1750
20 November 2019, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,312.50 inc. premium
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Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
A very rare Bow white sauceboat, circa 1750
Of oval silver shape with a pronounced lip, the handle in the form of an upright dragon, the beast finely modelled and finished by hand with a curved scaly body, small wings and a long tail, the sides moulded with generous swags of flowers suspended from the shaped rim, further flowers around the foot, 16.5cm high
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Provenance
With Winifred Williams, Eastbourne
Lorentz B Knouff Collection, no.148, Sotheby's sale, 19 October 1994, lot 1
Judy and Phelps Bell Collection
This sauceboat is modelled after a silver prototype designed by Charles Frederich Kändler, an example of which marked London 1742 is illustrated by Sarah D Coffin, Rococo: The Continuing Curve (2008), p.123, fig.38. It has been suggested that C F Kändler was the younger brother of the Meissen modeller Johann Joachim Kändler. Two pairs of silver dragon handled sauceboats by C F Kändler, one pair marked London 1737 and 1742 and the other unmarked, are in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, illustrated by Arthur Grimwade, Rococo Silver, 1727-1765, London (1974), pls.34A, 34B and 35A. Very similar Bow white dragon handled sauceboats are illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.41, no.36, and in the ECC English Pottery and Porcelain Commemorative Exhibition catalogue (1948), pl.30, no.127.
