A PAIR OF BRISTOL HEXAGONAL SLENDER TAPERING VASES AND COVERS, the decoration of each vase differing slightly with four sides painted predominantly in green and in colours with trees and shrubs in landscape vignettes and two sides painted en camaieu bleu with the same subject, the angles outlined in gilt and entwined with gilt foliage, the shoulders gilt with scrolls and shell ornament, the domed hexagonal covers similarly decorated and with high puce berried finials surrounded by radiating green leaves (one vase with small crack to neck and hair-line crack to side, the other with crack to shoulder and small glaze chip to one panel, one cover with tips of two leaves and part of finial restored), Richard Champion's factory, circa 1775

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A PAIR OF BRISTOL HEXAGONAL SLENDER TAPERING VASES AND COVERS, the decoration of each vase differing slightly with four sides painted predominantly in green and in colours with trees and shrubs in landscape vignettes and two sides painted en camaieu bleu with the same subject, the angles outlined in gilt and entwined with gilt foliage, the shoulders gilt with scrolls and shell ornament, the domed hexagonal covers similarly decorated and with high puce berried finials surrounded by radiating green leaves (one vase with small crack to neck and hair-line crack to side, the other with crack to shoulder and small glaze chip to one panel, one cover with tips of two leaves and part of finial restored), Richard Champion's factory, circa 1775
44.5cm. high (2)

Provenance

W. Edkins, Bristol
Alfred Trapnell

Literature

Albert Amor Ltd., A Catalogue of Bristol and Plymouth Porcelain...., forming the collection made by Alfred Trapnell, pl. XXIV, nos. 255 and 256 (without the covers)
F. Severne Mackenna, Champion's Bristol Porcelain, fig 89

Exhibited

FitzWilliam Museum, Cambridge

Lot Essay

Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., p. 222 notes that the present pair of covered vases originally formed part of a garniture of five vases, the remaining three now in the Untermyer Collection, ibid., pl. 112, fig. 294. Also cf. Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection of English Porcelain Pottery Earthenware Enamels etc., vol. I (1915), pl. 82, no. 740 and R.L. Hobson, Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the British Museum (1905), pl. XXXIII, no. VIII 18, the decoration on these examples including exotic birds

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