A pair of English stoneware vases and pedestals

BY JOHN MARRIOTT BLASHFIELD, STAMFORD, CIRCA 1860

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A pair of English stoneware vases and pedestals
By John Marriott Blashfield, Stamford, Circa 1860
Each with a pearl and egg-and-dart overhanging rim, above a waisted body with convolvulus above a Greek-key frieze, the gadrooned lower section flanked to each side by a fluted handle centred by foliage, with mask terminals, on an acanthus-decorated socle with a square plinth inscribed J. M. BLASHFIELD, STAMFORD to the inside of the vase; each on an associated square pedestal on stepped foot
The vases: 24 in. (63 cm.) high; 17 in. (44.5 cm.) wide
The pedestals: 17 in. (45 cm.) high; 13 in. (35 cm.) square
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Lot Essay

The vases are variants of design No. 152 in Blashfield's catalogue published in 1857. The catalogue examples have tall, scrolled handles reaching to the lip of the vase, but the shape and decoration are otherwise the same. One was exhibited at the 1862 Great Exhibition, and is reproduced in The Art-Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition, London, 1862, p.74.

For more information about J. M. Blashfield, see the introductory note preceding lot 125.

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