A very rare polychrome Vauxhall small bowl, circa 1758
Painted with a stylised landscape including a tree, ‘holey’ rocks, fence, a pagoda in a landscape with colourful hills in the distance, enamelled in colours of rust red, pink, turquoise, green and yellow.
Diameter: 12.7 cm
Mark: None
Condition: Tiny stilt mark nicks to rim, glazed-over large chip in manufacture to footrim.
Previously with Albert Amor, their label to base.
A polychrome bowl is illustrated in the Simon Spero Exhibition catalogue, 2002, no.8, p.12, where such bowls are described as being “decorated with patterns which do not occur on other shapes. Indeed, in many instances, only one example of the pattern is known.” This description may well be applicable to this bowl.