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A Royal Worcester porcelain…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
25-Mar-2024
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Description:
A Royal Worcester porcelain 'Limoges Enamel' decorated exhibition ewer and stand, dated 1866 and 1867, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr, the ewer of classical baluster shape on a circular foot, modelled with a Neptune mask beneath the spout and a handle in the form of a winged melusine holding a dove to her chest, cobalt blue ground with gilt handle, mouldings, and details, the gilding by Josiah Davis, the body finely decorated all round in white enamel with classical figures in various scenes, the shoulder and foot with classical portrait medallions and dolphins, the stand circular on a raised foot, its well accommodating the foot of the ewer within moulded borders decorated with cartouches and fields of mythological figures battling sea creatures and other classical designs, the ewer and stand both signed 'T. Bott', the signatures respectively dated 1867 and 1866, the stand also with printed factory mark dated 1866, the ewer 30 cm high, the stand 4.5 cm high, 31 cm diameter. Provenance: Walter Horace Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882-1948), thence by descent. Exhibited: the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867. Literature: the Art Journal illustrated catalogue of the universal exhibition, Paris, 1867, Virtue & Co., London and New York. Condition: the ewer's handle has been broken through the wing tips, where the wings meet the body, through the waist and through the tail, and cleanly reglued. A 3 cm x 6 cm section of the spout has been broken off and restuck., smaller areas of restorations to the moulded decoration to the neck of the ewer., the stand has a 12 cm restored crack running to the centre and down the foot, and encircling approximately one third of the well., under Uv light the stand also presents three stabilized hairline cracks and one smaller hairline. The largest hairline measures 6.5 cm., professionally restored by Ms Sarah Peek of Brighton England, minor losses to gilding in areas, and a small scratch to the blue ground to the verso of the stand
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Ceramics: Royal Worcester