A Longton Hall sauceboat, a coffee cup and a teabowl and saucer, circa 1753-60 The first raised on a low fluted foot, the handle moulded with rings simulating a silver shape, painted in blue on both sides with the 'Ruined Castle' pattern of a landscape with a castle and a church, 14cm long, the others of plain shape, the cup with a double-scroll handle, all painted in blue with the 'Wind-swept' pattern of a stylised hut on an island surrounded by sketchily drawn plants, saucer 11.7cm diam, workmen's marks 'K' in blue Footnotes: Provenance Broderip Collection (sauceboat) Watney Collection, Phillips, 22 September 1999, lots 64 (sauceboat) and 82 (coffee cup, teabowl and saucer) R W Knox Collection Literature Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain (1953), fig.69A (coffee cup, teabowl and saucer) Nicholas Brankin-Frisby illustrates a coffee can painted with the 'Ruined Castle' design in There is Still Life at Longton Hall (2021), pp.28-9, no.20. The style of painting on the sauceboat has been associated with the so-called 'Castle Painter', often said to be John Hayfield. Wasters in this pattern from the factory site are illustrated by Bernard Watney, 'Excavations at the Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory', Post-Medieval Archaeology, Vol.27 (1993), p.72, pl.3. For wasters in the 'Wind-swept' pattern, see pl.4. Pieces in this pattern are often marked with the letter K, as seen here. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing