Lot Essay
The form of the present example is based on the Svres 18th century prototype vase flacon cordes. See David Battie, Guide to Understanding 19th & 20th Century British Porcelain, Suffolk, 1994, p. 244 and Antoinette Fa-Hall and Barbara Mundt, Porcelain of the Nineteenth Century, p. 204-206, fig. 357.