A rare Bow blue and white two-handled sauceboat, c.1750-52, painted in a bright blue with a bird

A rare Bow blue and white two-handled sauceboat, c.1750-52, painted in a bright blue with a bird perched on branches of flowering magnolia within a hatched diaper border, the twin handles with mask head terminals, 17.7cm.

Provenance: the Henry Lawrence Collection. Purchased Neal's, Nottingham, 6th May 2002.

Cf. Phillips, The Watney Collection, Part III, lot 838 for a similar example.

TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE