Charming Regency Porcelain New Oval Shaped Sucrier / Sugar Box & Cover c.1810

A striking Georgian porcelain sugar box and cover in the "new oval" shape, c.1810. Very nicely hand painted in orange, red, green and black enamels with a running border of green vine leaves alternating with red feathery grasses. Marked with pattern number N22. The maker is unknown but is most likely the same manufacturer who produced the two teapots in Michael Berthoud's An Anthology Of British Teapots, plates 1299 and 1230. They share distinctive features including the specific shapes of the vestigial thumb rests, the vertical walls just below the rim and the knop which also has the same sunburst pattern on all three pieces. They also have similarly very low pattern numbers of 30 and 29 which stands them out among other manufacturers of the period that took the trouble to mark pattern numbers.