Fine Porcelain and Pottery - 9th September 2014

Lot 8

A pearlware blue and white eyebath 1st half 19th century

Estimate £250 - £350 | Hammer £420

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Description

A pearlware blue and white eyebath 1st half 19th century, perhaps Dilwyn, printed with a continuous foliate design with smoke ring flowers to the bowl and foot, a faint rim crack, 5.5cm.

The design is taken from the border of a pattern known as 'Blind Man's Bluff in the Open', see Friends of Blue, Bulletin 69, page 11 for a plate with the full pattern.