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Lot 260

A rare Derby vase, circa 1765

15 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A rare Derby vase, circa 1765

Of inverted baluster form with a neatly turned spreading foot and neck, painted in blue on both sides with an irregularly shape panel of a country church beside a tall tree, two panels of an insect in flight on the neck, reserved within scrolled borders onto a sponged blue ground, 12.7cm high, patch marks (fine cracks to rim)

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Provenance
Gilbert Bradley Collection

Illustrated by Gilbert Bradley (ed), Ceramics of Derbyshire, no.223, colour plate p.99. Sponged decoration is most unusual on English porcelain, the effect being similar to that achieved using powder blue

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