A good Bow sauceboat, circa 1750


Of high-footed form, crisply moulded with swags of fruit and flowers suspended from the scrolled rim, more swags around the oval foot, the high double-scrolled handle with an acanthus thumbrest, gilded inside and out with flower sprays and scattered insects, a formal border inside the rim, 22.3cm long
|A closely related example is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz, Catalogue of the Freeman Collection (1982), p.36, pl.35 and another by Nicholas Panes, British Porcelain Sauceboats of the 18th Century (2009), p.61, fig.85