British & Continental Ceramics & Glass (Day Two) - 27th April 2023
Lot 665
A rare Lowestoft blue and white butter tub with...
Estimate £1,300 - £1,500
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Description
A rare Lowestoft blue and white butter tub with cover and stand, c.1762, with Hughes type moulding, the straight-sided oval tub painted possibly by Richard Phillips, with Oriental landscape panels, echoed to the cover, the stand with a more extensive pagoda landscape, painter's numeral 4 to the tub's footrim, 18cm. (3)
Illustrated: Geoffrey A. Godden, Lowestoft Porcelains, p.67, pl.61 where the author points out the upside-down flowers on one side of the tub, owing to an inverted mould. Also, Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft, p.126, fig.173.