An English delftware sauceboat, Liverpool or Lancaster, circa 1760 Of low, oval form with a shell-shaped pouring lip to each end, the twin handles moulded as foxes, painted in blue to the interior with formal peony and prunus sprays, the rim with a diaper border, the exterior also with sprays of flowers and stripes of scroll pattern reserved in white on blue underneath the lips, 21.8cm long Footnotes: Provenance Liane Richards Collection Anton Gabszewicz Collection A similar sauceboat from the Graham Slater Collection was sold by Bonhams on 16 April 2025, lot 484. Another is illustrated by Michael Archer, Delftware (2013), p.281, no.G15 and an armorial example of similar shape on p.282, G.16. The shape is ultimately derived from French silver and was widely copied, for example in Dutch Delft, Chinese export porcelain and Worcester porcelain. Foxes are also seen as handles on Staffordshire pottery examples. English Delftware two-handled sauceboats are traditionally attributed to Liverpool, and the distinctive striped scroll pattern on the undersides of the pouring lips is seen on a Liverpool sauceboat of different shape, see Michael Archer, 'A Group of Liverpool Delftwares', ECC Trans, Vol.16, Pt.1 (1996), p.120, pl.23. However, more recent excavations at Lancaster have produced wasters of similar sauceboat lips, as well as modelled fox handles, suggesting an alternative origin for the present lot. See Blenkinship and Hobson, Lancaster Delftware: an 18th century Pottery (2022), pp.109-110. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing