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Lot 181
A Worcester vase and cover, circa 1768
15 December 2020, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,657.50 inc. premium
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A Worcester vase and cover, circa 1768
Of tapering hexagonal form, the high domed cover with a pointed finial, fully decorated with a yellow ground reserved with arabesque panels containing printed and coloured landscapes with ruins, the front and back with larger panels, one with an elegant party rowing past a ruined arch, the other with a man with a staff standing in a ruined temple among pieces of broken entablature, the rims with an iron red diaper pattern reserved with gilt flowerheads,
29.2cm high, (2)
29.2cm high, (2)
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Provenance
Zorensky Collection, Bonhams sale, 16 March 2004, lot 144
Sir Jeremy Lever Collection, Bonhams sale, 7 March 2007, lot 107
Ralph Kenber Collection
This celebrated vase is illustrated by Sandon and Spero, The Zorensky Collection (1996), p.228, fig.265. A very similar vase, possibly the pair to this lot, is in the H Rissik Marshall Collection and is illustrated in Coloured Worcester Porcelain (1954), pl.13 no.233. The inspiration would appear to have been 1730s Meissen, an influence acknowledged by the use of kakiemon sprigs on the shoulder similar in taste to the 'indianische Blumen' sprigs used at Meissen. The primary prints on this vase also occur on a pair of scale blue ground hexagonal vases in the British Museum, see R L Hobson, Catalogue of the Frank Lloyd Collection of Worcester Porcelain (1923), pl.78.