AN ENGLISH SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE SAUCE-BOAT AND A MODEL OF A RECUMBENT EWE AND LAMB
Lot 150 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BARBARA ANSPACH

Known for “…her great taste, sense of style and history, and passion for the arts” [N.Y. Times, October 2014], Barbara “Bobbie” Anspach and her husband Andrew helped make her family’s hotel, The Algonquin, the storied New York City landmark it remains today. An inveterate traveler, her deep affection for the city of London and for the friends she made there inspired her collection of 18th century English ceramics. Actively seeking prime examples from respected British and New York antiquarians and collectors, many of her prized 'pots' are those used to illustrate the standard literature in the field.

AN ENGLISH SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE SAUCE-BOAT AND A MODEL OF A RECUMBENT EWE AND LAMB

CIRCA 1755

Closed8 October 2015

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AN ENGLISH SALT-GLAZED STONEWARE SAUCE-BOAT AND A MODEL OF A RECUMBENT EWE AND LAMB
CIRCA 1755
The sauce-boat of silver shape, the fox-molded handle with cobalt blue eyes, press-molded overall with snails, shells and grotesque heads among others, raised on three paw feet with lion-mask terminals; the sheep based on a Chelsea model
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) long, the sauce-boat

L.A. Compton Collection, no. 204 (sauce-boat).
With Leo Kaplan, Ltd., New York (sauce-boat).
Frances L. Dickson Collection, no. 2043 (sheep).

Specialist note

For a nearly identical sauce-boat, see, Weldon Vol. II, p. 113, fig. 62, this once thought to possibly be the ECC Exhibition example.

The sheep group is based on a model found in Chelsea porcelain. For an enameled stoneware example see A. Mountford, Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware, London, 1971, fig. 242