A GRAINGER'S WORCESTER PATE-SUR-PATE SLATE-BLUE GROUND VASE

DATE LETTER FOR 1893, PRINTED ROYAL CHINA WORKS SHIELD MARK, MODEL AND PATTERN NO. 41/G4429

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A GRAINGER'S WORCESTER PATE-SUR-PATE SLATE-BLUE GROUND VASE
DATE LETTER FOR 1893, PRINTED ROYAL CHINA WORKS SHIELD MARK, MODEL AND PATTERN NO. 41/G4429
Of teardrop shape, the mouth and foot enriched with gilt bands, the neck flanked by double-loop vine handles, the front finely painted in white slip and hand-tooled with a blossoming branch of cinquefoil, the reverse with an insect in flight
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration 1849-1992, Essex, 1992, p.169 which notes that similar examples can be seen in the Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery and the Dyson Perrins Museum, now the Museum of Worcester Porcelain.

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