Shape Type
Breakfast & Tea Wares
Pattern Type
Chinese, Asian and Other Exotic Themes
Date
1770-1775
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 12.00 in (30.48 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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