A rare Longton Hall sauceboat c.1755

A rare Longton Hall sauceboat c.1755, the generous shell-moulded shape inspired from silver examples, painted in a bold polychrome palette with a long-tailed bird perched on holey rockwork beside flowering branches, the reverse and interior with bright peony sprays, damages, 21.7cm.

Cf. Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century, figs 241-243 for a discussion of this rare group of moulded sauceboats.