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A Handpainted Lowestoft Saucer c.1785-90

Lowestoft saucer, c.1785-90, handpainted with a Chinoiserie landscape in underglaze blue, with a yellow/brown rim to imitate Chinese export porcelain. The saucer is unmarked.

Condition is good with a hairline only.

Measures 4 1/2 in diameter.

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The saucer is decorated in a typical Lowestoft manner, with a naive Chinoiserie scene, & heavy use of underglaze blue.

There is a slight crack to the base of the saucer.

Here you can see the applied coloured enamel to the rim to imitate Chinese export porcelain, which can have an orangish tinge to the exposed, unglazed edges due to the high iron content in the clay. This is a technique also applied at the Wolfe Mason (Liverpool factory), where footrims too were given an enamelled edge, in order to deceive.

Here you can see the hairline from the rim, with the usual phosphatic staining (above).
The feint crack to the base is visible below, where you can also see the blued glaze where it has pooled slightly.

This is a nice example of a Lowestoft saucer, in a typically Lowestoft Chinese landscape pattern & enamelled rim, which would compliment any collection of 18th Century English Porcelain.