CIRCA 1880-90, PROBABLY BROWN-WESTHEAD, MOORE, ONE SIGNED SCHENCK AND INDISTINCTLY DATED, THE OTHER WITH INCISED X, GILT PATTERN NO. 5636

Very similar vases were decorated by Frederick Schenck for the George Jones factory, see the example sold Christie's New York, 11 April 2007, lot 1818. For a discussion of his work for the Brown-Westhead, Moore factory, see Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, (London, 1992), pp. 161-163.