Characteristics of Lowestoft China.

The china is soft paste, and is often very badly potted. The blue is inclined to run. There is a gritty appearance in places on the glaze, which is spotted as if by sand. In some of the blue decorated pieces, where a flight of birds is introduced, the crescent moon (like the Worcester crescent mark) has been put in almost as a challenge to Worcester. One especial feature is the green hue of the glaze settled under the rims of saucers and basins and cups. The paste often has little bumps on it, and a mound in the centre of base under rim. Roses, set back to back, appear on Lowestoft pieces. The red of Lowestoft is of a peculiar quality, approaching puce in some specimens, and varying from mauve pink to carmine.

SALE PRICES.

Lowestoft.£s.d.
Bowl, 101⁄2 in., painted in flowers, with trees and cattle. S. Mealing Mills, Norwich, December 3, 1902750
Mug, decorated in blue, with figure holding spit of herrings. Fishing boats on reverse side, inscribed “John Cooper, 1768.” Signed “R. P.”—Richard Philips, a painter at Lowestoft. Messrs. Notley, Lowestoft, July, 1903 (illustrated [p. 125])1100
Mug, painted in blue, with inscription—“Add to knowledge, temperance (Peter II), James Last of Saxmundham, 1769.” Christie, March 8, 190416106
Bowl, painted with pastoral subjects, in panels, foliage, scrolls in red, and inscription inside, dated 1774. Christie, April 8, 19042650
Bowl, large, painted with medallion views in brown and with ribands and foliage round the border in dark blue and gold. Diameter, 131⁄2 in. Christie, March 2, 1905600
Mugs, two, roughly decorated with blue, and inscribed below “Abim Moore, August 29, 1765.” Christie, April 7, 1905550
Lowestoft china, ten teacups and eight saucers decorated with border and sprays of flowers in crimson, red, blue, and green. Sotheby, May 17, 1920500

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TWO-HANDLED CUP, RICHLY GILDED, WITH BLUE AND WHITE PANELS. COALBROOKDALE. MARKED CBD.