Shape Type: Breakfast & Tea Wares

Pattern Type: Chinese, Asian and Other Exotic Themes

Date: 1770-1775

Dimensions:

  • Diameter: 4.72 in (12.00 cm)

Maker: Lowestoft

Description:

This saucer is printed with a pattern peculiar to Lowestoft: Two Dromedaries on a Raft.  It shows a Chinese figure struggling to control a sampan heavily laden with two large dromedaries.  No source for this extraordinary scene has been discovered.  The pattern has a simple painted border of two lines but it is also known with a painted trellis border.

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