A PAIR OF MINTONS FUCHSIA-GROUND 'OCTAGONAL CHELSEA' VASES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1840, PROBABLY PAINTED BY JOSEPH WAREHAM AND GILDED BY JOHN ROBINS

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A PAIR OF MINTONS FUCHSIA-GROUND 'OCTAGONAL CHELSEA' VASES AND COVERS
Circa 1840, probably painted by Joseph Wareham and gilded by John Robins
In the Chelsea Gold Anchor style, each of octagonal baluster form with domed covers and elaborate rocaille scroll handles, painted with exotic birds in landscape vignettes reserved in shaped panels on the bright pink ground within elaborately gilt and tooled rocaille trellis and diaper-pattern cartouches, the alternate panels painted with rich bouquets
18½in. (47cm.) high (2)

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See Geoffrey A. Godden, Minton Pottery and Porcelain of the First Period, 1793-1850, New York, 1968, fig. 119, for an illustration of a similar vase with gilding probably by Robins and for a diagram of the model from the Minton ornamental design folio number 165; also see fig. 25 for a Royal Dejèuner Service in Her Majesty's Collection with similar tooled gilding and bird painting by Joseph Wareham. Wareham is recorded in a statement by Rhead as a painter of birds as well as flowers in the Sèvres style. Works recorded as being painted by him were consistently the most expensive of the period.

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