Rare Bow Silver Shaped Sauceboat, Circa 1750
A Rare Bow Silver Shaped Sauceboat, moulded in crisp low relief with festooned swags of roses and flowers pendant from the scrolled rim, supported on a high oval pedestal base, with a further band of roses, the strongly ribbed and double scrolled handle applied at the interior upper terminal with a face wearing an Indian headdress, the whole enriched with gold open flowers and hatched leaves interspersed, the pedestal foot with four simple stars.
Marks: Incised C T to the underside of the foot.
Literature
For a similar example from the Geoffrey Freeman Collection see, Anton Gabszewicz and Geoffrey Freeman, ‘Bow Porcelain, The Collection Formed By Geoffrey Freeman’, London 1982, p. 41, no. 35. Mason’s the First Two Hundred Years, published by Merrell Holberton, 1996.