English & European Ceramics & Glass - 24th November 2015

Lot 555

Five Lowestoft blue and white saucers c.1770-80

Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £320

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Description

Five Lowestoft blue and white saucers c.1770-80, one painted with small buildings in a Chinoiserie landscape, one with a rare pattern of flowering peony issuing from a zig-zag fence, three painted with the Mansfield pattern, one with an open crescent mark, another with a workman's mark, 12.7cm max. (5)

Cf. Simon Spero, The Simpson Collection of Eighteenth Century English Blue and White Miniature Porcelain, p.34 for a teapot in the peony and fence pattern.