A ROYAL WORCESTER (GEORGE OWEN) 'JEWELLED' AND RETICULATED VASE AND COVER

DATE CYPHER N FOR 1878, PUCE PRINTED AND IMPRESSED CROWNED MARKS, SIGNED IN IRON-RED GEO(RGE) ROBERTS.

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A ROYAL WORCESTER (GEORGE OWEN) 'JEWELLED' AND RETICULATED VASE AND COVER
Date cypher N for 1878, puce printed and impressed crowned marks, signed in iron-red Geo(rge) Roberts.
The domed cover pierced with banded turquoise-ground panels of stylized fret-work, each enclosing a gilt enriched roundel of a crane in flight or among bamboo below an ormolu berried finial, the everted mouth with pendant tassels above a similarly panelled oviform vase the piercing highlighted with raised gold dots and edged by raised gold scrollwork and reserved on pink-ground, the neck and socle enriched with white and turquoise enamelled 'jewels', the conforming stand enamelled and enriched with strapwork
14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

There are two entries for a George Roberts in the Royal Worcester records. One is for a gilder, noted as signing his work with a TR monogram, recorded at the factory prior to 1898; the other for a painter and lay preacher, signing Geo. Roberts, circa 1917. Please note the present example is amongst the largest ever produced.

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