This listing features a Rare Lowestoft English Porcelain 5 1/2" Domestic Ware Pitcher circa 1790 featuring a sea monster on the front. No chips on handle or upper rim. Wear to the bottom rim. Hairline cracks run throughout the body with a small piece of porcelain missing from the interior. This piece should be secured with some type of adhesive in the interior but is fine for now.

The East Anglian fishing port of Lowestoft, set far away from the other centres of 18th century porcelain production like London, Staffordshire or Liverpool, began producing porcelain commercially in the late 1750s. The ceramic body was of soft paste using local clay and bone ash, and the factory was set up by a small group of men including local potter Philip Walker, who formed a company in 1757 named Walker and Co.

The founders aimed to produce useful rather than ornamental wares for local consumption: teabowls and saucers, small creamboats, mugs, jugs, teapots and pickle leaves. At first the decoration was only in underglaze blue and consisted, like so many other early English factories, of Chinese-inspired painted landscapes or simple floral motifs.

A fine addition to any collection!

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