FINE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART
Royal Splendour
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An
extremely rare and highly unusual Bow Small Vase or perhaps a Tea
canister, of slender baluster form, painted in colours with water birds
including a swan and a crane amongst bull rushes and other puce and green
vegetation, surrounded by small sprigs of flowers, the domed cover with
similar floral sprigs.
Circa 1758-60.
Height: 71⁄2 ins. (19 cms.)
No Marks
A very rare form, the decoration is linked to some of the water birds that are engraved within the Ladies Amusement also perhaps by the same hand as the painter of the vase exhibited ECC 1948 English Pottery and Porcelain, no. 138. That bears an owl with a lion-like face being mobbed by a peacock and other exotic birds, which was at one time in the Oliver Bowlby collection.