A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED CONTINENTAL REDWARE VASE

19TH CENTURY, IMPRESSED CASTLE AND SHIELD MARK WITH A-B MONOGRAM OVER T

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A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED CONTINENTAL REDWARE VASE
19th century, impressed castle and shield mark with A-B monogram over T
Of baluster form with flaring mouth, painted and enriched to resemble Japanese lacquer with distinquished figures standing and seated at a table in a garden, shaded by flowering prunus and bamboo, the reverse with a hawk perched in a tree preying on a smaller bird, on a rocaille cast foot
30in. (76cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Chaffers, Marks and Monograms, Los Angeles, 1946, p. 140 for a record of this mark, under the header Turin (?), found on a pair of vases 'of very light and resonant ware, with rich maroon-coloured glaze... in the possession of Mr. Jackson of Hull.'

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