Fine Pottery & Porcelain - 21st February 2023
Lot 773
A rare Lowestoft blue and white wall pocket
Estimate £2,500 - £3,000 | Hammer £2800
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Description
A rare Lowestoft blue and white wall pocket, c.1760, of moulded cornucopia form, unusually painted with a man riding a donkey beneath a fringed palm tree, with blue highlights to the moulding, a long crack, 22.5cm.
Cf. Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft, p.80, fig.92 for an identical example from the Godden Collection, sold at Bonhams on 30th June 2010, lot 123.
Cornucopia wall pockets of this type appear to have been copied directly from Bow. Waster fragments were found at the Lowestoft factory site during 20th century excavations.