THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A WORCESTER BLUE-GROUND BALUSTER POTPOURRI-VASE AND COVER painted with exotic birds perched and in flight in wooded landscape vignettes, within heart-shaped cartouches enriched with gilt C-scroll, shell and hatched ornament, reserved on a dark-blue ground gilt with scattered flower-sprays and foliage, the shoulder pierced with lozenge and diamond-shaped panels, with short waisted neck, gilt rim and a wide gilt band to the footrim, the domed cover similarly decorated and with white and gilt knob finial, blue square seal mark, circa 1768
Details
A WORCESTER BLUE-GROUND BALUSTER POTPOURRI-VASE AND COVER painted with exotic birds perched and in flight in wooded landscape vignettes, within heart-shaped cartouches enriched with gilt C-scroll, shell and hatched ornament, reserved on a dark-blue ground gilt with scattered flower-sprays and foliage, the shoulder pierced with lozenge and diamond-shaped panels, with short waisted neck, gilt rim and a wide gilt band to the footrim, the domed cover similarly decorated and with white and gilt knob finial, blue square seal mark, circa 1768
38.5cm. high
38.5cm. high
Provenance
The Hon. Mr. Justice Neil Primrose, sale Sotheby's, 6 May 1969, lot 196