FINE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
Royal Splendour
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Another
extremely rare and highly unusual Bow small Vase or perhaps a Tea
Canister, of slender baluster form, painted in colours with several
agitated birds, surrounded by smaller floral sprigs, the domed cover with
further flowers, the reverse painted with insects in flight, brown line
rims to both pieces.
Circa 1758-60.
Height: 71⁄2 ins. (19 cms.)
No Marks
The
large flying insects on the reverse of this vase have great similarity to
the insects painted by James Welsh that appear on the inkwell signed by
him that can be seen in the