1758-60

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A pair of Worcester blue and white tapering hexagonal vases and domed covers
1758-60
Painted with long-tailed birds perched in flowering tree-peonies, the shoulders and covers with quatrefoil panels with chinoiserie landscapes with figures and pagodas reserved on a ground of scrolling foliage, the necks painted with diaper-pattern (one vase extensively damaged, the other with crack to shoulder, both necks with pieces lacking and with restoration, interior flange of one cover partly lacking, the other cover with a replacement wooden finial), blue crossed swords and script 6 marks
15¼in. (39cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Lawrence Branyan, Neal French and John Sandon, Worcester Blue and White Porcelain 1751-1790 (1981), pp. 140 and 141 for the vase shapes and patterns and F. Severne Mackenna, Worcester Porcelain, The Wall Period and its Antecedents (1950), pl. 11, no. 23 for an example in the author's collection. There are a pair of these vases in the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Schreiber Collection, accession number Schr. I.478.

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