A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS DARK-BLUE-GROUND 'LIMOGES ENAMEL' VASES AND DOMED COVERS, the shoulders moulded with gilt pierced winged cherubs' masks and the flared feet with lugs, the flattened bodies painted by Thomas Bott in blue monochrome, with a female and a child saint, each enclosed within a gilt ciselé circular cartouche surrounded by four gilt interlaced scolls, the reverses painted in a similar manner, one with a sword entwined by serpents and ribbon-tied quills, the other with a winged cherub's mask flanked by foliage scrolls and mythical serpents, the necks with gilt interlaced tendrils and the covers with ring finials (restoration to covers and to one neck, one with crack to base, one with contemporary marbling to base to disguise firing cracks), artist's signature and monogram, iron-red printed marks, dated 1858??

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A PAIR OF KERR & BINNS DARK-BLUE-GROUND 'LIMOGES ENAMEL' VASES AND DOMED COVERS, the shoulders moulded with gilt pierced winged cherubs' masks and the flared feet with lugs, the flattened bodies painted by Thomas Bott in blue monochrome, with a female and a child saint, each enclosed within a gilt ciselé circular cartouche surrounded by four gilt interlaced scolls, the reverses painted in a similar manner, one with a sword entwined by serpents and ribbon-tied quills, the other with a winged cherub's mask flanked by foliage scrolls and mythical serpents, the necks with gilt interlaced tendrils and the covers with ring finials (restoration to covers and to one neck, one with crack to base, one with contemporary marbling to base to disguise firing cracks), artist's signature and monogram, iron-red printed marks, dated 1858??
11½in. (29cm.) high (2)

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Thomas Bott joined the Kerr & Binns factory in 1853, where he developed the 'Limoges enamel' style of painting and also worked on the celebrated 'Shakespeare' service. For examples of his work, see Sandon, 1973, pl. 47 and also colour pl. 111, for a ewer and basin shown at the 1871 South Kensington exhibition

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