A tall blue and white Liverpool vase c.1765

A tall blue and white Liverpool vase c.1765, James Pennington or Richard Chaffers, the baluster body finely painted with a figure standing in the doorway of a tall pagoda, a further figure on a bridge spanning a river beside jagged rocks, two further figures on the other bank beneath wisteria, with birds in flight above, incised 6 to the base, the cover lacking, a few faint rim cracks, 22.5cm.

Cf. Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain, p.131, fig. 4.115 records this shape as belonging to Pennington; however, see also p.212, pl.5.174 for near identical decoration on a Chaffers water bottle.