A ROYAL WORCESTER TWO-HANDLED POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER with a gilt conical finial, the sky-blue ground painted by Charles Henry Clifford Baldwin with five swans flying towards dusky night shadows against a background of wild grasses and raised gilt flowers, the reverse with three swallows in flight, the scrolling green and apricot handles with palmette terminals, the neck pierced with panels of diaper-pattern and moulded with C-scrolls and foliage enriched in apricot, green and gilding, the moulded design repeated at the base (minor wear to gilding at rim), signed, puce printed marks, model number 1515, date code for 1897

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A ROYAL WORCESTER TWO-HANDLED POT-POURRI VASE AND COVER with a gilt conical finial, the sky-blue ground painted by Charles Henry Clifford Baldwin with five swans flying towards dusky night shadows against a background of wild grasses and raised gilt flowers, the reverse with three swallows in flight, the scrolling green and apricot handles with palmette terminals, the neck pierced with panels of diaper-pattern and moulded with C-scrolls and foliage enriched in apricot, green and gilding, the moulded design repeated at the base (minor wear to gilding at rim), signed, puce printed marks, model number 1515, date code for 1897
9¾in. (24.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

Charles Baldwin worked at the Royal Worcester factory 1880-1904 and specialised in the painting of birds. Cf. Henry Sandon, Royal Worcester Porcelain, colour plate XIV. A similar vase and cover sold in these Rooms, 21 May 1992, lot 307

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