A ROYAL CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND 'EMPEROR' VASE

DATE CYPHER FOR 1904, IRON-RED CROWNED MONOGRAM AND ROYAL WARRANT MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. 1405, TWICE SIGNED A.(LBERT) GREGORY

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A ROYAL CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND 'EMPEROR' VASE
DATE CYPHER FOR 1904, IRON-RED CROWNED MONOGRAM AND ROYAL WARRANT MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. 1405, TWICE SIGNED A.(LBERT) GREGORY
Finely painted front and back with bouquets within beaded gilt scrollwork cartouches, the blue ground gilt with flowering vine, flanked by upright loop handles with acanthus terminals, on a conforming socle and square base
16½ in. (41.9 cm.) high

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Albert Gregory joined Derby at Ormaston Road in the 1890s. Renowned for his naturalistic flower painting, his name became synonymous with the large cabbage roses- The Gregory Rose- which dominate his compositions. A vase of the same form and nearly identical decoration formerly in the Royal Crown Derby Museum was sold Sotheby's, London, 8 November 1999, lot 34. Also see J. Twitchett and B. Bailey, Royal Crown Derby, 1976, p. 149 for another 'Emperor' vase dated 1904.

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