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A PAIR OF ROYAL CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS
Lot 174

A PAIR OF ROYAL CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS

DATE CYPHER FOR 1909, IRON-RED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. 1543, IRON-RED PATTERN NO. G126/15434S, SIGNED A.(LBERT) GREGORY

Closed18 April 2013

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A PAIR OF ROYAL CROWN DERBY PORCELAIN COBALT-BLUE GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASES AND COVERS
DATE CYPHER FOR 1909, IRON-RED CROWNED MONOGRAM MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. 1543, IRON-RED PATTERN NO. G126/15434S, SIGNED A.(LBERT) GREGORY
Each of baluster form, flanked by upright scroll handles with stiff-leaf terminals, the shoulder finely painted with a continuous floral garland including cabbage roses, above a band of gilt scrolling vine, on a conforming socle and canted square base
16 in. (41 cm.) high (4)

Specialist note

Albert Gregory joined Derby at Ormaston Road in the 1890s. Renowned for his naturalistic flower painting, his name became synonymous with the large cabbage roses- The Gregory Rose- which dominates his compositions. For a drawing of this form by Desiré Leroy in the factory's archives, see J. Twitchett and B. Bailey, Royal Crown Derby, Suffolk, 1988, p. 83, pl. 37c. Also see P. Atterbury, The History of Porcelain, London, 1982, p. 165 for a finished example of the form by Leroy.