A superb Persian style Royal Worcester vase by Hadley, mid 1870s, the fine ivory bottle vase with ornate pierced buttress style handles and foliate embellishments in shot olive and deep cream colours, the body decorated with pale blue lilies in a vase surrounded by lavish swirling gilt paste arabesques and foliate tendrils in relief and raised on a pierced guilloche patterned base; inscribed Hadley to the lower body, with puce backstamps, impressed marks and brown monogram underside. Height 56.5 cm