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A PAIR OF WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE VASES AND DOMED COVERS
Lot 1020

A PAIR OF WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE VASES AND DOMED COVERS

CIRCA 1758-60, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND 6 MARKS TO BASES AND UNDERSIDE OF COVERS

Closed22 May 2014

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A PAIR OF WORCESTER BLUE AND WHITE VASES AND DOMED COVERS
CIRCA 1758-60, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS AND 6 MARKS TO BASES AND UNDERSIDE OF COVERS
Each of tapering hexagonal form, painted with long-tailed birds perched on branches amongst stylised Oriental shrubs, the neck and covers with cartouches of Oriental fishermen beside pavilions
16 in. (40.6 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 3 June 1996, lot 25.

Specialist note

For a pair of vases with similar decoration see Lawrence Branyan, Neal French and John Sandon, Worcester Blue and white Porcelain 1751-1790, London, 1981, pp. 140-141, no. I.C.19. See also the similar pair in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in the Schreiber Collection (accession number Schr. I.478.)