
A Vauxhall small sauceboat or creamboat and a pickle dish, circa 1755-58 The sauceboat of low fluted shape with a pronounced pouring lip and an angular handle, painted in a vibrant 'sticky' blue with banana trees by a fence and gnarled prunus, 14cm long, the pickle dish of vine leaf form, with a sharply serrated rim, the underside moulded with veins and supported by three peg feet, painted with flowers issuing from holed rockwork, 7.2cm wide (2) Footnotes: Provenance Susi and Ian Sutherland Collection, Bonhams, 3 October 2007, lot 204 (sauceboat) Watney Collection, Phillips, 4 March 1998, lot 289 (pickle leaf) Lyn and Maurice Hillis Collection The pattern depicted on the sauceboat is closely related to one found on Bow of the same period. The pickle leaf is illustrated by Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain (2011), p.6, fig.2.2 alongside other Vauxhall porcelain once mis-ascribed to William Ball's Liverpool factory. See also lot 141 in this sale. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing




























