Live Auction 20038An Aesthetic Odyssey: The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection
A BURMANTOFTS FAIENCE GREEN-GLAZED DOUBLE GOURD VASE
Lot 160

A BURMANTOFTS FAIENCE GREEN-GLAZED DOUBLE GOURD VASE

CIRCA 1885, IMPRESSED BURMANTOFTS FAIENCE FACTORY MARKS, INCISED SHAPE NO. 676

Closed30 September 2021

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GBP 3,000

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A BURMANTOFTS FAIENCE GREEN-GLAZED DOUBLE GOURD VASE
CIRCA 1885, IMPRESSED BURMANTOFTS FAIENCE FACTORY MARKS, INCISED SHAPE NO. 676
Encircled by a red dragon and applied with a yellow amphibian creature above a frieze of moulded grasses and flowering plants with green and brown streaked glazes
23 ½ in. (59.7 cm.) high

Acquired 1983.

Specialist note


The Burmantofts factory, based in Leeds and producing art pottery from 1880 until 1904, frequently featured dragons and other mythical creatures in its designs for vases. An example of this form is in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, museum no. 2002.396.