Lot Details
Lot 111
West Pans Earthenware 'Littler's Blue' Ground Leaf-Molded Stand
Circa 1765-70, unmarked
Lozenge shaped, the rim molded with alternate three overlapping leaf clusters of maple or primrose, the mazarine blue ground pooling to deep cobalt at one side of the central well, the rim edged in gilt.
Length 9 1/2 inches.
Provenance:
Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry Collection, Dalkeith House, Midlothian, Scotland.
Christie's, London, 10 October 1970, lot 3 (sold with bowl, since separated).
See the British Museum, London no. OA.10515, for a similarly molded soft-paste porcelain example with a white center. For an earthenware example, see Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 1997, lot 297. Also, reference The Watney Collection, Phillips, 22 September 1999, Part 1, lot 106; and the paper by Bernard Watney and John Ainslie, 'The West Pans Story', E.C.C. Transaction, Vol. 6, Part 2, p. 172 for an excerpt from an advertisement in the Caledonian Mercury of June 1767, where a potter named William Cadell at Prestopans is mentioned offering 'white stoneware'.
C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell
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