細節
A Mason's Ironstone vase probably painted by Samuel Bourne
Circa 1820, impressed circular mark
In three sections, the slender green-ground neck below a richly-gilt flared rim, the two gilt and painted handles formed as a cornucopia with a merman finial and as a merman covering his face with his hands, the oviform body painted with two shaped panels, one of boys and cattle in a river landscape with buildings in the distance, the other of a cowherd, girls, cows and sheep in a landscape, flanked by underglaze- blue-ground and gilt borders and above a moulded and gilt band of roses, flowers and foliage, the lower gadrooned part gilt with foliage- swags on a green-ground above a fluted slender foot and on a gilt square base with black rim (slight flaking to painted panels re-touched, slight re-touching to gilding, footrim re-painted)
27¼in. (69cm.) high
出版
Valerie Howard, 'An Exhibition Dedicated to the Landscape & Flower Painting on Miles Mason Porcelain & Early Ironstone China', Catalogue, no. 23; see also col. pl. p. 23. Mrs Howard there attributes the vase to Samuel Bourne and refers to two only known signed examples of his work, those being a watercolour and a Minton tray of circa 1850.
Gaye Blake Roberts, 'Mason's: The First 200 Years', Exhibition Catalogue (1996), p. 94.
展覽
'An Exhibition Dedicated to the Landscape & Flower Painting On Miles Mason Porcelain & Early Ironstone China', Valerie Howard Antique China, London, November - December 1993.
'Mason's Ironstone, In Celebration of 200 Years', Wedgwood, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, June - October 1996.
