A COALPORT 'DIAMOND JUBILEE' COMMEMMORATIVE IVORY-GROUND VASE AND COVER

DATED 1897, PRINTED GREEN MARK, AND GILT INSCRIPTION 'MANUFACTURED BY THE COALPORT CHINA CO LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY FOR US. NO. 9 F. & C. OSLER', PAINTING ATTRIBUTED TO J.H. PLANT

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A COALPORT 'DIAMOND JUBILEE' COMMEMMORATIVE IVORY-GROUND VASE AND COVER
Dated 1897, printed green mark, and gilt inscription 'Manufactured by the Coalport China Co Limited exclusively for us. no. 9 F. & C. Osler', painting attributed to J.H. Plant
With crown imperial finial, above the domed cover finely painted with four orders of knighthood in circlets linked by gilt diamond, thistle, shamrock and rose chain set with ruby 'jewels', above a gadrooned neck and angular handles topped with lion heads, the illustrated side with the young Victoria in profile as a portrait medallion on a ruby ground, within a gilt circlet set with six sepia views of life circa 1837 within wreath surrounds and gilt with oak branches, the reverse similarly decorated with a portrait of Queen Victoria circa 1897 with contemporary views, the flaring socle with the Royal Arms and the crests of Colonial Dominions of Canada and Australia on a square base, applied with painted bosses of ships and raised on lion paw feet
20.7/8in. (53cm.) high

Lot Essay

This vase was the ninth of a limited edition of fifty produced by Coalport exclusively for F & C Osler of Oxford Street to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The sepia reserves reflect the industrial and agricultural progress achieve in Great Britain during her reign, such as Stevenson's Rocket and the Forth Road Bridge. See Michael Messinger, Coalport 1795 - 1926, Suffolk, 1995, p. 352-354, pl. 307 & 308 for an extensive discussion of this form and decoration.

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