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A Worcester porcelain vase, the…
Auction House:
Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
25-Mar-2024
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Description:
A Worcester porcelain vase, the decoration by James Callowhill, 1850s, apparently on an earlier body, of broad baluster shape on a square foot with a pair of foliate scrolling handles between the shoulders and rim, the body with gilt-ground borders framing the 'Council of the Gods' after Raphael to the front and Zeus's eagle on a mount to the reverse, signed by Callowhill to one side, the neck and foot pink ground with gilt rim, handles, mouldings, and other details, impressed Flight, Barr, & Barr mark underside together with a further signature by the decorator, 'J. Callowhill, Painter', 36 cm high. Other notes: the crowned Fbb mark impressed to the underside, a mark that went out of use after the merger in that year of the flight and Barr and Chamberlain's Worcester businesses, suggests that the body was manufactured no later than that date and then remained in stock as an undecorated blank throughout the Grainger period to at last be taken up and decorated by Callowhill who joined the firm in 1853 following its acquisition by Richard Binns and William Kerr in 1852.. Condition: losses to gilding in places, and slight wear to painted panel. Restoration and regilding to the lower body (section under painted panel). Small crack to pedestal base. Restoration and regilding to both handles
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Category:
Ceramics: Royal Worcester