A JOSEPH HOLDCROFT TURQUOISE-GROUND CYLINDRICAL UMBRELLA-STAND, moulded in relief with a heron and a stork, each with a fish caught in its beak, standing within a continuous frieze of bulrushes, leaves and rocks between horizontal brown-glazed bands of ruyi lappets, the flared and shaped lower part similarly glazed in dark brown (crack to rim), impressed mark, circa 1870

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A JOSEPH HOLDCROFT TURQUOISE-GROUND CYLINDRICAL UMBRELLA-STAND, moulded in relief with a heron and a stork, each with a fish caught in its beak, standing within a continuous frieze of bulrushes, leaves and rocks between horizontal brown-glazed bands of ruyi lappets, the flared and shaped lower part similarly glazed in dark brown (crack to rim), impressed mark, circa 1870
21¼in. (54cm.) high

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Joseph Holdcroft worked at the Minton factory before establishing his own manufactory in 1865. The relief-moulded birds on this vase were modelled in three-dimensional form as umbrella-stands and manufactured by both the Minton and Holdcroft factories, see Marilyn G. Karmason with Joan B. Stacke, op. cit., p. 55 and ibid., p. 103

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