A COALPORT 'JEWELLED' GOLD AND IVORY GROUND SWAN-HANDLED VASE AND COVER
A COALPORT 'JEWELLED' GOLD AND IVORY GROUND SWAN-HANDLED VASE AND COVER

CIRCA 1900, PRINTED GREEN CROWNED MARK, GILT PATTERN NO. V. 2497

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A COALPORT 'JEWELLED' GOLD AND IVORY GROUND SWAN-HANDLED VASE AND COVER
Circa 1900, printed green crowned mark, gilt pattern no. V. 2497
The domed cover with berry finial above a collared gadrooned neck flanked by displaying swans, the sides and central body enriched with a meandering vine issuing cones, reserved on a shield-shaped embossed gold ground enamelled with graduated turquoise 'jewels', the flaring foot moulded with stiff-leaf tips and lappets
9¾in. (24.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Michael Messenger, Coalport 1795-1926, Suffolk, 1995, p. 395, pl. 352 for a similar vase (lacking cover) in the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Coalport China Museum. This example is decorated with pattern V. 2604 and associated with the work of Frank Lewis.

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