A ROYAL WORCESTER IVORY-GROUND BULBOUS VASE with a slender flared trumpet neck moulded with lappets and two gilt handles, the body painted in colours and gilding with an owl perched on a branch and enriched in gilt lustre with a full moon behind clouds, the reverse with a spray of grasses, on a flared foot (wear to gilding), green printed mark and incised 148, circa 1885