A PAIR OF WORCESTER (FLIGHT, BARR & BARR) PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL PINK-GROUND VASES

CIRCA 1820, PUCE SCRIPT 'LONDON HOUSE' MARK AND IMPRESSED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARK

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A PAIR OF WORCESTER (FLIGHT, BARR & BARR) PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL PINK-GROUND VASES
Circa 1820, puce script 'London House' mark and impressed crowned monogram mark
Each of campana form, the beaded shoulder flanked by gilt scroll handles, the front finely painted with a view of either 'Rhayadar Bridge, Radnorshire' or 'Matlock High Tor, Derbyshire' within a raised and burnished gilt cartouche, on a seeded band enriched with a classical vase among scrollwork, on a conforming socle and square base
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Purchased from Arthur S. Vernay, New York, October 1931

Lot Essay

See anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 24 January 2001, lot 246 for another vase painted with the Rhayadar bridge; and John Twitchett and Henry Sandon, Landscapes on Derby and Worcester Porcelain, London, 1984, colour pl. 2, for a tureen painted with Matlock High Tor.

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