An English delftware small sauceboat mid 18th century

An English delftware small sauceboat mid 18th century, probably London, the shallow form painted with a tall building in a rural European landscape, beneath the spout with panels of blue scale, the interior with a single flower spray, raised on a crisply moulded foot, a long crack, 15.5cm across.

Provenance: the Nick Panes collection. Purchased from Christie's, Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection, 3rd November 2011, lot 280. Previously from the estate of Mrs Edith Pitts Curtis, sold at Owen F Valentine & Co, Virginia, 22nd-23rd October 1994, lot 389.