A Royal Crown Derby two-handled urn and cover painted with trophies of musical instruments suspended from garlands of roses within turquoise and gilt-ground borders, the handles of scrolling foliate form with suspended laurel garlands, the neck and foot painted with a prunus on cracked-ice ground, above a square-section plinth (restoration to the neck and cover), red printed marks, late 19th Century
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A Royal Crown Derby two-handled urn and cover painted with trophies of musical instruments suspended from garlands of roses within turquoise and gilt-ground borders, the handles of scrolling foliate form with suspended laurel garlands, the neck and foot painted with a prunus on cracked-ice ground, above a square-section plinth (restoration to the neck and cover), red printed marks, late 19th Century
See Colour Plate III
Lot Essay
C.f Royal Crown Derby by John Twitchett and Betty Bailey, p.114, for an illustration of a vase of similar shape painted with similar designs