Details
A Worcester blue-scale tapering hexagonal vase and domed cover
painted with exotic birds among fruiting trees within two shaped gilt scroll panels, the shoulders with two panels of butterflies and insects, the cover with similar ornament, blue fretted square seal mark, circa 1775 (replacement section to rim, crack and old restoration) -- 35cm. high
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painted with exotic birds among fruiting trees within two shaped gilt scroll panels, the shoulders with two panels of butterflies and insects, the cover with similar ornament, blue fretted square seal mark, circa 1775 (replacement section to rim, crack and old restoration) -- 35cm. high
See Illustration
Literature
H. Rissik Marshall, Coloured Worcester Porcelain of the First Period, (1954), p. 238, no. 822 for a similar larger example.
Henry Sandon, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1793, (2nd ed. 1974), frontispiece for a similar larger example.
Henry Sandon, Worcester Porcelain 1751-1793, (2nd ed. 1974), frontispiece for a similar larger example.