Lot Essay
John Gilmour & Company, a fireclay company based at Kilmarnock, owned the Hillhead Fireclay Works from 1858 to 1867, as well as Bonnyton Fireclay Works prior to 1882 up to the 1930's.
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BY J. GILMOUR & CO, KILMARNOCK, CIRCA 1880
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A pair of Scottish stoneware vases
By J. Gilmour & Co, Kilmarnock, Circa 1880
Each of campana shape, with an egg-and-dart moulded overhanging rim, above the waisted body with ivy, the gadrooned lower half flanked to each side by a loop-and-druid mask handle, on a circular spreading fluted socle, on square base inscribed J. GILMOUR & CO BONNYTON KILMARNOCK
22 in. (57 cm.) diameter; 35 in. (91 cm) high (2)
By J. Gilmour & Co, Kilmarnock, Circa 1880
Each of campana shape, with an egg-and-dart moulded overhanging rim, above the waisted body with ivy, the gadrooned lower half flanked to each side by a loop-and-druid mask handle, on a circular spreading fluted socle, on square base inscribed J. GILMOUR & CO BONNYTON KILMARNOCK
22 in. (57 cm.) diameter; 35 in. (91 cm) high (2)