A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASES AND STANDS

DATED 1877, GREEN PRINTED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARKS, INCISED 576, NOW MOUNTED AS LAMPS

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A PAIR OF ROYAL WORCESTER PORCELAIN VASES AND STANDS
DATED 1877, GREEN PRINTED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARKS, INCISED 576, NOW MOUNTED AS LAMPS
In the Japonisme taste, each of pear-form flanked by pierced whorling-cloud flange handles, gilt front and back with cranes flying before blue painted seaside landscapes, on a pierced rectangular base molded as bamboo
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, excluding the fixtures (2)

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A vase of the same form and decoration, possibly one of the present pair, was exhibited at the Paris Universelle of 1878. See The Illustrated Catalogue of the Paris International Exhibition, 1878, London, p. 7 for a drawing of the vase. Worcester looked to Japan for inspiration for their works, and as the Art Journal notes, the examples on display "not unfrequently surpass[ed] in refinement of design and perfection of manufacture the original efforts of a marvelously artistic and skilled people."

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