Sauceboat — CRC# 1510

Description

An important marked Lund's Bristol creamboat, circa 1749-50, of flared form with a gently undulating rim, the sides delicately moulded with 'double-rimmed' cartouches with tri-lobed tops flanked by chains of simple whorls, painted in blue, the front with a standing Chinese figure holding a flower, the reverse with a sampan, a hut and a 'floating rock', a flower sprig under the spout, shells, flowers and leaves around the interior rim, a further floating rock painted in the base, 10.7cm long, moulded mark in relief 'Bristol' to the base close to the handle

Service

Blue/white

Date

1749-51

Size

11cm handle to lip, 5.2cm high

Condition

Perfect

Mark

Bristol

Mark Group

No mark

Decorator

No mark

Maker

Lund

Labels

Guy-Jones Collection 253

Historic Provenance

Sotheby's, 18 October 1988, lot 631; Gordon & Sue Guy-Jones Collection. Four examples of this model have been recorded with the embossed mark 'Bristol' and these are listed by Ray Jones in his survey of Limehouse, Lund's and early Worcester wares, see The Origins of Worcester Porcelain (2018), pp.358-9. One is in the A J Smith Collection in Bristol Museum and another is in the Museum of Royal Worcester (formerly in the Caldwell and Dyson Perrins Collections). The other two are illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, Blue and White, pls.127 and 128. All of these appear to be cast from the same mould as the present lot, the neat embossed mark leaving no doubt that they were made before the manufactory moved to Worcester.

CRC#

1510

Type

Sauceboat