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Lot 83

A handsome pair of Mason's Ironstone vases, circa 1815-25

15 December 2020, 14:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£500 - £700

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A handsome pair of Mason's Ironstone vases, circa 1815-25

Of slightly tapering form, unusually moulded with twelve deep zig-zag flutes, richly enamelled and gilded with birds and flowers, the reverse with large gilt butterflies and stylised sheaves of corn, further floral gilding adorning the trumpet necks, all on deep blue mazarine grounds, 39.2cm high (2)

Footnotes

For comparable decoration on vases of different form see Geoffrey Godden, Mason's China and the Ironstone Wares (1980), pp.183-4.

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