Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A LOWESTOFT PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE GUGLET AND BASIN CIRCA 1770
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A LOWESTOFT PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE GUGLET AND BASIN CIRCA 1770
of typical form, painted with large sprays of flowers and insects, the center of the basin painted with a bird and insect in a medallion, with scrollwork bands at the rims.
Height of guglet 9¼ in.; 23.5 cm
Diameter of basin 10½ in.; 26.5 cm
The Pinewood Collection, Phillips, London, October 31, 2001, lot 125
An identical guglet is in the Norwich Castle Collection, illustrated by Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain, Norwich, 1975, fig. 24, where a further example dated 1764 is illustrated, fig. 22. Related bowls are recorded bearing the date 1768, which acts as the basis for the dating of the present lot.