A Pinxton Porcelain Sugar Boat in pattern 342 c.1800

A Pinxton Porcelain Sugar Boat in pattern 342 c.1800. The oval shape sugar boat in soft paste porcelain, decorated in pattern 342 with painted bright Japan colours f arched panels of stylised flowers reserved on an iron red ground. 

Unmarked.

Condition: Good with no damage or crazing. Just some wear to the gilded band around the rim.

Pinxton first introduced pattern 342 in 1807 when it was bought by the factory's founder John Coke. 

Literature: N.G Dent The Patterns and Shapes of the Pinxton China Factory 1796 – 1813  - Page 72 for a teapot of the same shape in this pattern. 

And: June C. Meeks, Pinxton China, 1992, pl. 46

For a sucrier in this pattern sold by Bonhams, see: https://www.bonhams.com/auction/15271/lot/214/a-good-pinxton-sucrier-and-cover-circa-1810/