CIRCA 1770

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A Worcester garniture of three pot-pourri vases and covers
Circa 1770
Each painted in 'dry' blue with bouquets, scattered specimen flowers and insects and applied with white garlands of flowers suspended from female-mask and shell handles, comprising an oviform vase and domed cover, the shoulder and cover pierced with diamond ornament and applied with gilt flowerheads at the intersections, and two urn-shaped vases and domed covers, the top rims and covers with ovolo piercing and applied with gilt flowerheads, all the covers with white bird finial preening its wing and perched on a cascade of garden flowers, the covers and circular feet with gilt dentil rims (the oviform vase with slight chip to rim and chip to footrim and with repair to finial, one urn-shaped vase with damage to rim, one cover riveted and with repair to finial, all with some chipping to flowers and shells)
16 1/4in. (41cm) and 10 3/4in.(27.5cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

For an undecorated example of similar form to the central oviform vase from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1990, lot 537 and illustrated by Franklin A. Barrett, Worcester Porcelain (1966), pl. 84.

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