A rare Lowestoft blue and white beaker

A rare Lowestoft blue and white beaker, c.1760-62, the slightly waisted form painted in a dark blue with a bird in flight above flowering Oriental branches, the reverse with a low hut with two smoking chimneys, a repair to the rim, 6.8cm high.

Provenance: formerly the Gilbert Bradley Collection.

Illustrated: Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft, p.61, fig.69.