A rare Vauxhall teabowl and saucer

A rare Vauxhall teabowl and saucer, c.1756-60, finely potted and decorated in the Imari palette with a bird in flight above another perched on a flowering prunus branch, a tiny nick to the saucer's rim, 11.4cm. (2)

Provenance: the David Stopher Collection.

Cf. Massey, Marno and Spero, Ceramics of Vauxhall, pp 89-90 for the pattern.