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A Rare Limehouse Polychrome Sauceboat, Circa 1746-48
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A Rare Limehouse Polychrome Sauceboat, Circa 1746-48
of silver shape, the shallow oval form with a shaped rim supported on three paw feet with lion mask terminals, painted and gilt in the famille rose style with large blossoms on the exterior, the interior decorated with four carp either gilt, puce or iron-red, amongst water reeds and scattered blossoms.
Width 8 in.
20.3 cm
Provenance
Dr Bernard Watney (1922-1998) Collection, bearing label;
Phillips London, May 10, 2000, lot 541
Literature
Bernard Watney, 'Limehouse coloured ware', E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1993, p. 69. no. 19.
Catalogue note
At the time of presenting his paper in 1991, Bernard Watney deduced that only twenty-one or so pieces of enamelled Limehouse porcelain were recorded. Of these, Watney listed that nine are sauceboats, then five teapots, three salts, a mug, a cream jug, and two leaf trays. Watney identified four glasses of polychrome Limehouse decoration, which corresponds to Chinese, Japanese and Meissen porcelain which had been decorated in Holland. The present piece was likely decorated in Holland of by a Dutch china painter working in England.
A pair of near identical sauceboats is in the St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, obj. nos. 145:1972.1/2. Like these sauceboats, the above-mentioned mug, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, is also decorated in the same famille-rose manner, with carp and small blossoms, acc. no. C.1346-1924. The decoration also appears on salt-glaze-stoneware, a salt-glaze teapot, enamelled with the same design is in the Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. obj. no.TWCMS : B737.1
of silver shape, the shallow oval form with a shaped rim supported on three paw feet with lion mask terminals, painted and gilt in the famille rose style with large blossoms on the exterior, the interior decorated with four carp either gilt, puce or iron-red, amongst water reeds and scattered blossoms.
Width 8 in.
20.3 cm
Provenance
Dr Bernard Watney (1922-1998) Collection, bearing label;
Phillips London, May 10, 2000, lot 541
Literature
Bernard Watney, 'Limehouse coloured ware', E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1993, p. 69. no. 19.
Catalogue note
At the time of presenting his paper in 1991, Bernard Watney deduced that only twenty-one or so pieces of enamelled Limehouse porcelain were recorded. Of these, Watney listed that nine are sauceboats, then five teapots, three salts, a mug, a cream jug, and two leaf trays. Watney identified four glasses of polychrome Limehouse decoration, which corresponds to Chinese, Japanese and Meissen porcelain which had been decorated in Holland. The present piece was likely decorated in Holland of by a Dutch china painter working in England.
A pair of near identical sauceboats is in the St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, obj. nos. 145:1972.1/2. Like these sauceboats, the above-mentioned mug, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, is also decorated in the same famille-rose manner, with carp and small blossoms, acc. no. C.1346-1924. The decoration also appears on salt-glaze-stoneware, a salt-glaze teapot, enamelled with the same design is in the Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. obj. no.TWCMS : B737.1
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A Rare Limehouse Polychrome Sauceboat, Circa 1746-48
of silver shape, the shallow oval form with a shaped rim supported on three paw feet with lion mask terminals, painted and gilt in the famille rose style with large blossoms on the exterior, the interior decorated with four carp either gilt, puce or iron-red, amongst water reeds and scattered blossoms.
Width 8 in.
20.3 cm
Provenance
Dr Bernard Watney (1922-1998) Collection, bearing label;
Phillips London, May 10, 2000, lot 541
Literature
Bernard Watney, 'Limehouse coloured ware', E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1993, p. 69. no. 19.
Catalogue note
At the time of presenting his paper in 1991, Bernard Watney deduced that only twenty-one or so pieces of enamelled Limehouse porcelain were recorded. Of these, Watney listed that nine are sauceboats, then five teapots, three salts, a mug, a cream jug, and two leaf trays. Watney identified four glasses of polychrome Limehouse decoration, which corresponds to Chinese, Japanese and Meissen porcelain which had been decorated in Holland. The present piece was likely decorated in Holland of by a Dutch china painter working in England.
A pair of near identical sauceboats is in the St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, obj. nos. 145:1972.1/2. Like these sauceboats, the above-mentioned mug, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, is also decorated in the same famille-rose manner, with carp and small blossoms, acc. no. C.1346-1924. The decoration also appears on salt-glaze-stoneware, a salt-glaze teapot, enamelled with the same design is in the Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. obj. no.TWCMS : B737.1
of silver shape, the shallow oval form with a shaped rim supported on three paw feet with lion mask terminals, painted and gilt in the famille rose style with large blossoms on the exterior, the interior decorated with four carp either gilt, puce or iron-red, amongst water reeds and scattered blossoms.
Width 8 in.
20.3 cm
Provenance
Dr Bernard Watney (1922-1998) Collection, bearing label;
Phillips London, May 10, 2000, lot 541
Literature
Bernard Watney, 'Limehouse coloured ware', E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1993, p. 69. no. 19.
Catalogue note
At the time of presenting his paper in 1991, Bernard Watney deduced that only twenty-one or so pieces of enamelled Limehouse porcelain were recorded. Of these, Watney listed that nine are sauceboats, then five teapots, three salts, a mug, a cream jug, and two leaf trays. Watney identified four glasses of polychrome Limehouse decoration, which corresponds to Chinese, Japanese and Meissen porcelain which had been decorated in Holland. The present piece was likely decorated in Holland of by a Dutch china painter working in England.
A pair of near identical sauceboats is in the St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri, obj. nos. 145:1972.1/2. Like these sauceboats, the above-mentioned mug, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, is also decorated in the same famille-rose manner, with carp and small blossoms, acc. no. C.1346-1924. The decoration also appears on salt-glaze-stoneware, a salt-glaze teapot, enamelled with the same design is in the Laing Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. obj. no.TWCMS : B737.1
A Taste of Rococo: Porcelain from an American Private Collection
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