A rare Lowestoft blue and white sauceboat

A rare Lowestoft blue and white sauceboat, c.1764-66, of narrow shape, painted probably by Robert Allen with long-tailed birds among flowering Oriental branches, the rim with a trellis band, painter's numeral 5, cracked, 19cm.

Illustrated: Geoffrey A. Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains, p.83, pl.89. At the time of publication this sauceboat was in Godden's own collection. He notes the unusual lack of relief moulding.