A scarce Lowestoft teabowl and saucer, painted in brilliant underglaze blue,
depicting a Chinese riverscape with pagodas, trees and sampans
within single line and "berry" borders;
the saucer verso with a painted decorator's mark M or 3 in underglaze blue

Ref :

Sheenah Smith, Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, fig. 336,
for a saucer in this pattern, only found on Lowestoft miniature pieces;
Geoffrey Godden, Lowestoft Porcelain (1985), p. 82, Pl. 87, for a miniature teaset of the same pattern;
Simon Spero, Simpson Collection of Eighteenth Century English Blue & White Miniature Porcelain,
pp. 29-30, Pls. 68-72 and 73-33 :
"This was the standard pattern on miniature Lowestoft teasets from the early 1760's until about 1770,
when it was replaced by the Chinese Garden scene."

Condition : Excellent; beautiful color; a glaze skip to the saucer center;
a few minor tiny chips to the rim; two porcelain & glaze adhesions to upper central teabowl

The Teabowl, 1.25" High / The Saucer 3-1/8" Diameter

(These images are shown oversize for inspection)

#7026

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