A Lowestoft Creamer, circa 1770
This charming and delightfully bulbous creamer is painted in underglaze blue with a Chinese-style riverscape, consisting of a house beside a bridge linking it to an island. The reverse is painted with a small vignette of a house on an island. The inner border is of an alternate trellis / demi- flowerhead design. The design is known to collectors as the Island House or Long Fence pattern.
Unmarked.
Dimensions: Height 8.5 cm.
Condition: Excellent – no damage or restoration, just typical imperfections in the paste and glaze, including tiny pinholes and minute patches of staining. There is a slight ridge in the potting of the pourer and a fully-glazed nick to the foot rim, both of which occurred during manufacture.
The Illustrated Guide to Lowestoft Porcelain, Geoffrey A. Godden (Praeger, 1969).
Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum, Volume 1, Sheenah Smith (Norfolk Museums Service, 1975).
A Cabinet of British Creamers, Michael Berthoud (Micawber Publications, 1999).
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