In order to help our American buyers with the costs imposed upon them by the new Trump tariffs, we offer free postage to the USA and coverage of the 10 % customs charges.

Description.
A good workman's mark (number 2) Lowestoft sauceboat, circa 1765, moulded (in Hughes style) with flowerheads. The mark is probably incapable, at this moment in time, of forming the basis of an attribution to an individual painter, though some of the numbers on Lowestoft porcelain (three and five) do enable attribution to either Robert Allen or Richard Phillips. The piece is painted with a chinoiserie river scene, a common pattern used by the factory. For a similar sauceboat, see figure 311 on Pages 170 and 171 of Smith's "Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum".

Condition.
There is a body crack, as shown in the photographs. No restoration.

Dimensions.
20cm in length.

We do not generally offer combined postage cost, as the cost and time involved in packaging and posting is very high.

We use recycled packaging. It don't necessarily look pretty, but it does work and helps reduce our environmental footprint.

If the postage policy specifies that postage is included, we will send by tracked postage, rather than tracked and signed. If you wish for the latter, please let us know. There will be an additional charge which we will notify to you.

When we send by tracked alone the item will be at your risk from the point that we can prove, by means of showing a delivery confirmation, that it was delivered to your premises. Until that point, the item will be at our risk.

We are prepared to deliver all over the world, except (for obvious reasons, given the Russian state's  unprovoked acts of aggression in Ukraine) to Russia.

We aim to ensure that our descriptions are absolutely accurate. Nevertheless, antique porcelain is never perfect. We use high definition photography with the aim of making the condition of any item extremely clear. Defects which are obvious in the photography we use are deemed to have been declared, even if we do not specifically refer to them in the description. An example of such a defect would be crazing-but we do not regard fine crazing as being a defect. If crazing is a particular issue for you, please let us know and we will then report as to whether there is any.

Restoration is sometimes extremely difficult to detect. We use UV light and transmitted light to check whether restoration has occurred. Sometimes, even those methodologies do not reveal restoration. If you are able, notwithstanding the definition, to show that restoration of a significant nature has occurred, we would obviously allow cancellation of the sale in such circumstances.