Live Auction 17737The Collection of Drue Heinz Townhouses in London and New York with interiors by John Fowler and Renzo Mongiardino
A WILLIAM IV ALABASTER-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN TWO-HANDLED VASE
Lot 348

A WILLIAM IV ALABASTER-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN TWO-HANDLED VASE

DERBYSHIRE, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed4 June 2019

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A WILLIAM IV ALABASTER-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN TWO-HANDLED VASE
DERBYSHIRE, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The broad shaped body with everted rim on spreading socle with reeded alabaster handles on later black marble plinth, the handles later coloured
11 ½ in. (29 cm.) high; 14 in. (36 cm.) wide

Randolph, Hertfordshire, where acquired, 14 June 1962.

Specialist note

The substantial blue john specimens used in this impressive vase or urn appear to display the distinctive character of the 'Old Dining Room Vein', discovered in the Blue John Cavern, Treak Cliff Hill, Derbyshire (see, T.D. Ford, Derbyshire Blue John, Ashbourne, 2000, pp. 32-34.)
A vase of near dentical design, retaining a larger alabaster-mounted plinth, was advertised for sale by Stair and Company, New York, in The Antique Collector, November issue, 1989.