A COALPORT 'JEWELED' GOLD-GROUND VASE

CIRCA 1900, GREEN PRINTED CROWNED MARK, GILT PATTERN NO. V. 2591/16

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A COALPORT 'JEWELED' GOLD-GROUND VASE
CIRCA 1900, GREEN PRINTED CROWNED MARK, GILT PATTERN NO. V. 2591/16
Of baluster form, the shoulder flanked by displaying swan form handles, the body richly enameled and gilt front and back with an elaborated variant rosette centering an agate cabochon set in a 'jeweled' bezel, one side reserved on an embossed gold ground enameled with graduated turquoise 'jewels'; the obverse enameled with graduated blue 'jewels' and gilt florets, the flaring foot molded with stiff-leaf tips and lappets
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high

Lot Essay

See Michael Messenger, Coalport 1795-1926, Suffolk, 1995, p. 395, pl. 352 for a similar vase (shape no. 97) in the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, Coalport China Museum. This example is decorated with pattern V. 2604 and associated with the work of Frank Lewis.

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