A ROYAL WORCESTER CREAM-GLAZED RETICULATED SLENDER OVIFORM VASE pierced by George Owen with a horizontal band of honeycomb-pattern enriched with gilt dots at the intersections, the shoulder further pierced with interlaced strapwork enriched with gilt dots and a band of husks and applied with two scroll handles with mask terminals, the slender pierced trumpet neck moulded with bands of flutes and beads, the lower body gilt with scrolls and husks and on a pierced and gilt flared foot (crack to shoulder above one handle), incised G. Owen, gilt printed marks and model number 2269, date code for 1919

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A ROYAL WORCESTER CREAM-GLAZED RETICULATED SLENDER OVIFORM VASE pierced by George Owen with a horizontal band of honeycomb-pattern enriched with gilt dots at the intersections, the shoulder further pierced with interlaced strapwork enriched with gilt dots and a band of husks and applied with two scroll handles with mask terminals, the slender pierced trumpet neck moulded with bands of flutes and beads, the lower body gilt with scrolls and husks and on a pierced and gilt flared foot (crack to shoulder above one handle), incised G. Owen, gilt printed marks and model number 2269, date code for 1919
8¾in. (22.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

George Owen specialised in reticulating wares for which he received many plaudits, his work being shown at international exhibitions such as The Chicago World Fair, in 1893. Cf. Henry Sandon, op. cit., pls. 138 and 139, for examples of his work

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