A PAIR OF WORCESTER (FLIGHT, BARR & BARR) TOPOGRAPHICAL BLUE-GROUND VASES AND COVERS

BLACK SCRIPT AND IMPRESSED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARKS, CIRCA 1815

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A PAIR OF WORCESTER (FLIGHT, BARR & BARR) TOPOGRAPHICAL BLUE-GROUND VASES AND COVERS
Black script and impressed crowned monogram marks, circa 1815
Each of baluster form on short socle foot and further square base, the cover and foot gilt with a trailing vine and a tight zig-zag band to form a sunburst, gilt dolphins scroll handles on shell terminals at the side, the shoulder gilt with a scroll and leaf band, one painted front and back with 'View near Dolgelly, Merionethshire' and 'View on the Taman', the other with 'Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire' and 'View near Buttermere, Cumberland', named on the undersides and reserved on the cobalt-blue ground within raised gilt cartouches
7½ in. (19 cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

See Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, The Antique Collector's Club, 1978, p. 107, plate 98 for a topographical cobalt-blue ground small cup with raised gilt cartouche and star-burst socle similar to the present examples.

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