Bishop & Miller Auctioneers Ltd
Lot 25
AN EXTREMELY RARE LOWESTOFT PORCELAIN TUREEN AND COVER, PROBABLY BY ROBERT ALLEN (PAINTER NUMBER 5). circa 1765-70, the domed lid with scalloped edge, the oval body with pierced handle to each side, decorated with a Chinoiserie landscape scene with figure on a bridge, the interior with floral spray decoration and three drainage holes, decorators number 5 to foot, 28cm wide across handles, 20cm deep, 20cm high J. Howell collection no. L.334 Provenance- Simon Spero, June 1978, £220 Note- Geoffrey Godden notes in his book Lowestoft Porcelains, p.217 that "few dinner services were made at the Lowestoft" factory and only two large tureens appears to be recorded". See p.87, plate 97 of the same volume for a large dish decorated in the same pattern as this tureen. *CR Lid finial is later, lid has been cracked and repaired with four staples, chip to the rim level with one of the handles, the body with hairline crack running from the rim down the body in a curve to under the handle, repaired with four staples, a further hairline crack to the rim level with one of the handle, one of the handles with stapled repair.