A very rare Samuel Gilbody (Liverpool) sauceboat c.1758-60

A very rare Samuel Gilbody (Liverpool) sauceboat c.1758-60, the unusually rounded body decorated in underglaze blue with a two-storeyed pagoda beside a small bridge linking rocky islands, with later gilt decoration of scrolled borders, and inscribed 'E + N Norwich 1766', 18cm.

Illustrated: Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century, figs.303 and 304, also in Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804, fig.7.58.

Exhibited: English Ceramics Circle Exhibition, 2006, no.120.

Paper labels for the Watney Collection and the Nicholas Panes Collection.