Live Auction 7821The Barratt Collection - from Crowe Hall, Bath
A PAIR OF WORCESTER HEXAGONAL VASES AND COVERS
Lot 48

A PAIR OF WORCESTER HEXAGONAL VASES AND COVERS

CIRCA 1768, BLUE FRETTED SQUARE SEAL MARKS

Closed16 December 2010

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GBP 20,000

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A PAIR OF WORCESTER HEXAGONAL VASES AND COVERS
CIRCA 1768, BLUE FRETTED SQUARE SEAL MARKS
Painted in the Kakiemon palette with bamboo and flowering shrubs below insects within gilt scroll cartouches on turquoise-ground diaper-pattern sections below richly-patterned sections to the shoulders divided by vertical blue bands reserved with mons and gilt with cell, fret and scroll and dot-pattern bands, one cover with a minute rim chip to the inner flange, very minor wear to gilding
11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high (2)

By repute, The Earl of Dudley.
With Alber Amor, London.

Specialist note

In his entry for these vases, F. Severne, Mackenna records:
'A very finely decorated pair of vases, the whole of the painting being carried out with great delicacy. The diapers and gilding are unusually complex and of gossamer fineness.'