English & European Ceramics & Glass - 24th November 2015

Lot 569

A Bow blue and white teapot with associated cover 1760-65

Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £480

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Description

A Bow blue and white teapot with associated cover 1760-65, printed with a figure on a bridge before tall pagodas and trees in a Chinese river landscape, the reverse with bamboo and a fence, the cover painted with Oriental landscape vignettes, the cover matched but still Bow, 17.8cm across. (2)

Cf. Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain, pl.80 for a saucer printed in the same pattern. Transfer-printing in underglaze blue never reached the output of contemporary factories such as Worcester, Caughley and Lowestoft.