A very rare hybrid hardpaste teabowl and saucer, circa 1785

Both pieces blue printed with a version of the ‘Gazebo’ pattern.  The teabowl has the lion mark to base and is printed with the ‘dark rock’ and ‘light rock’ versions of the Gazebo print on opposite sides, and is probably of Enoch Wood manufacture. (See Roger Pomfret for a discussion of this group and this pattern in particular, NCS Journal, Vol. 38, 2023, The Identification of Enoch Wood’s 18^th-century Porcelain, pp.71-90.)  The saucer is of a greyer paste with a pale ochre rim, and could be New Hall or Enoch Wood.

Diameter of saucer: 12.8cm

Condition: teabowl very small footrim chip, saucer very small firing fault to rim under the glaze

Blue printed lion mark to base of teabowl

Provenance:  The Watney Collection, Witherick Collection

£275