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Lot 75

A Longton Hall vase and cover
Circa 1758-60.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £780 inc. premium

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A Longton Hall vase and cover

Circa 1758-60.
Of asymmetric rococo form picked out in puce and bright green, painted with colourful fancy birds strutting amongst foliage, within scroll moulded cartouches applied with flowerheads, the cover profusely applied with colourful flowers, 22cm high, painted '2' to the underside of the base (typical flower losses) (2)

Footnotes

For a similar vase and cover, painted with flowers rather than birds, see the ECC Commemorative Exhibition Catalogue, June 1948, pl 75, fig 345. A pair of vases applied with upright flowers to the rim is illustrated by Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain (1957), pl 63A

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