A rare pair of small Bow flower-pots, circa 1760

Height 5.9cm
No mark

The bucket shaped pots have two moulded bands and applied ring handles, with a drain hole in the base. Flower pots were also produced at Chelsea and Longton Hall, but are more commonly found with polychrome decoration. They sometimes contained porcelain flowers or more rarely a cactus, and were produced as cabinet pieces. These blue examples would have been functional.

Condition: Tiny glaze chip to inside rim of one pot

See Gabszewiez A. and Freeman G., Bow Porcelain, The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman, 1982, nos. 150 and 151
Bonhams Oxford, 19 March 2013, The Jeanne Zorensky Collection of British Ceramics, lot 43
Adams E. and Redstone D., Bow Porcelain, 1981, fig.49, for a different shaped flower-pot with applied rose sprigs and crabstock handles.

£675