A PAIR OF COALPORT 'JEWELED' BLUE-GROUND LOBED BOTTLE VASES

CIRCA 1855, ONE BASE WITH INCISED M

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A PAIR OF COALPORT 'JEWELED' BLUE-GROUND LOBED BOTTLE VASES
Circa 1855, one base with incised M
Each with small domed cover enriched with turquoise 'beading' above the waisted neck tied with gilt-dotted white ribbons forming the handles, the lobes with vertical gilt ribbon stripes with applied turquoise 'beading', on a similarly decorated waisted socle and circular plinth base
12¼in. (31.1cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

For the original Sèvres model, created in about 1770 and called 'Vase Flacon à Rubans, that these vases are based on see, Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres Des Origines à Nos Jours, Fribourg, 1978, p. 178, fig. 177.
See also, Geoffrey A. Godden, Coalport & Coalbrookdale Porcelains, New York, 1970, fig. 230-B for an illustration from the Art Journal magazine, of Coalport porcelain at the Dublin Art-Industry Exhibition including a vase of similar shape.

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