Description:
English Lowestoft soft-paste porcelain, pear-shaped cream pot with a very pale green glaze and some glaze-free areas on the foot rim; and a scroll handle, sparrow-beak lip, and painted in the enamel colors of brick-red, green, yellow, black, purple, blue, brown, and orange. Lowestoft was a seaside town on the Suffolk coast, which produced soft-paste procelain. Its distance from the main centers of ceramic production contributed to the individual nature of its products and its slow stylistic development. Founded c.1757 by five partners, the factory continued to produce wares until c.1799, when the factory faced financial hardships from the increased competition with Staffordshire earthenwares. The exterior rim has a brick-red line over a loop pattern; over a chinoiserie scene of a woman holding up a flower and a boy sitting on a large seat in a garden with trees, running fence and a flying insect. The pot was purchased by the donor from Wynn Sayman in Richmond, Massachusetts in the early 1990s; and was confirmed as Lowestoft and dated by English porcelain expert Dr. David Redstone during a visit by members of the English Ceramic Circle, May 13, 2010. Dr. Redstone also noted that the base of Lowestoft pieces often look as if it has been sprinkled with salt.
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