How Limehouse can still surprise us

IT is every auctioneer’s dream to find a treasure in a box of odds and ends. How much more exciting it must be when that treasure also proves to be of academic importance, a candidate for the title of the earliest figure in English blue and white porcelain.

That is what Woolley and Wallis's keen-eyed specialist John Axford experienced when he spotted this …

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