BLUE PRINTED CYPHER MARKS DATED 1838 AND GILDER'S A. (18)39 TO BOTH, ONE INCISED 32 6 AND WITH OTHER SCRIPT LETTERS AND INITIALS, THE OTHER INCISED 35 10

The ground colour of the present vases is paler and less purple in tone than that generally found on pieces with this sort of neoclassic decoration. It may be, instead, the colour referred to in the records as bleu pâle.