A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS

DATED 1871, PRINTED BROWN CROWNED MARKS, SIGNED J.(OSIAH) RUSHTON

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A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER COBALT-BLUE GROUND VASES AND COVERS
Dated 1871, printed brown crowned marks, signed J.(osiah) Rushton
Each with berried finial, the domed cover with radiating beaded panels, the oviform body flanked by berried laurel handles, finely painted with familial subjects in rural landscapes, the reverse gilt with ribbon-tied wreaths, on beaded knop, conforming socle and canted square base
15in. (38.2cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Geoffrey A. Godden, Victorian Porcelain, New York 1961, p. 112, fig. 55, for a vase of identical form painted by J. Rushton, 1870; also see Henry Sandon, Royal Worcester Porcelain, from 1862 to the Present Day, London 1978, fig. 55 and 56, for similar paired paintings by Rushton after Paul Delaroche and Stanley Munich. Rushton is recorded at the factory from 1862-1871 as a noted painter of figures including a series of 'Beauties of the Court of King Charles' and works after Gainsborough

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