A rare Lowestoft blue and white sauceboat dated 1765, possible modelled by James Hughes, painted with a version of the Fisherman and Billboard Island pattern, the interior with flowering branches, the moulding to the side of the spout enclosing the date `1765`, painter`s numeral 4 inside the foot, 19cm. Provenance: a private collection in East Anglia. Cf. Christopher Spencer, Early Lowestoft, p.8 where this sauceboat is mentioned in the author`s introduction.