A pair of Derby two-handled urn-shaped vases and covers

CIRCA 1780, WM. DUESBURY & CO., GILT CROWN, CROSSED BATONS AND D MARKS TO UPPER SURFACES OF PLINTHS, ONE INCISED B 101 TO UNDERSIDE OF BASE, ONE COVER INCISED 3, THE OTHER 7(?)

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A pair of Derby two-handled urn-shaped vases and covers
Circa 1780, Wm. Duesbury & Co., gilt Crown, crossed batons and D marks to upper surfaces of plinths, one incised B 101 to underside of base, one cover incised 3, the other 7(?)
With oval cartouches possibly painted by Richard Askew with the Muses of Tragedy and Comedy, the first laying flowers at Shakespeare's tomb, the second playing with a child with the masks emblematic of Tragedy and Comedy at her side, the reverses with figures in river landscapes, reserved on striped gilt grounds beneath blue borders gilt with anthemia and scrolls, the lower parts and covers with blue and gilt spiral gadroons, on fluted stems and square plinths, the covers with blue and gilt acorn finials, the slender angular handles applied with 'jewels' (one vase with fracture and flaked enamels around base and top of stem and with one handle restuck, the other with crack to top of each handle, slight chip to rim of one cover, one finial with wear to gilding)
10¾in. (27.3cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. Anthony Hoyte, The Charles Norman Collection of 18th Century Derby Porcelain (1996), p.8 and the pair of similar vases sold in these Rooms, 12 February 1990, lot 76. For a smilar treatment of the ground and border decoration, see Gilbert Bradley, Derby Porcelain 1750-98 (1990), p. 105, fig. 51.

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