
Two Liverpool (Richard Chaffers) sauceboats, circa 1758-62 Of rare fluted form with scroll-moulded rims and double scroll handles, one example of generous proportions, painted in blue with a willow and fence with added iron red enamel and gold, the interior with a very unusual chinoiserie island in a colourful palette including green, manganese and yellow, 20.7cm long, the smaller sauceboat with Chinese island painted in blue within floral and scroll edged panels, 20cm long (2) Footnotes: Provenance With Liane Richards (polychrome sauceboat) With Roderick Jellicoe (blue and white sauceboat) Lyn and Maurice Hillis Collection Literature Maurice Hillis, Liverpool Porcelain (2011), p.207, fig.5.161 (polychrome) and p.208, fig.5.163 (blue and white) The polychrome vignette to the interior of the larger sauceboat is painted over an underglaze blue floral sprig. A large Chaffers jug with blue, red and gold decoration but some additional colourful enamel details to the interior corresponding with firing faults was also in the Hillis Collection, sold by Bonhams on 26 June 2025, lot 241. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing






























