A rare Lowestoft blue and white feeding cup c.1765-70

A rare Lowestoft blue and white feeding cup c.1765-70, the bucket-shape body painted with bamboo issuing from an ornamental fence between flowering plants, the shaped partial fixed cover painted with a further flowering sprig, echoed to the long straight spout, painter's numeral inside the footrim, a crack to the base and spout, 15.5cm across.

Cf. Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Vol. I, no. 182.