Very Rare Early Moulded Sauceboat c1758-60 Ex Godden Collection

An early and very rare Lowestoft moulded sauceboat, hand decorated in underglaze blue c1758-60.

The sauceboat measures 16.9cm in length including the handle and stands 9cm tall at the top of the handle.

A 2.5cm hairline crack to one side of the handle, and two other shorter cracks running from the left side of the rim, all of these are extended firing cracks. Three chips to the left side rim also. No restoration.

Marked with a crescent mark to the inside of the foot.

Sold at Bonhams in 2010, lot 121 in the Geoffrey Godden Collection of Blue and white Porcelain.

ex Godden and Robert Woodthorpe Browne collections.