A rare and interesting blue and white Liverpool teabowl and saucer c.1755-58

A rare and interesting blue and white Liverpool teabowl and saucer c.1755-58, probably Samuel Gilbody, painted with a tall flowering peony branch issuing from holey rockwork, 12.6cm. (2)

Paper label for the Leonard B Knouff Collection.

A similar teabowl and saucer was illustrated in Bernard Watney's Liverpool Porcelain, fig.175 and attributed to Philip Christian, however Gilbody is also known to have used this pattern.

Provenance: from a private collection in Surrey.