A Carlton Ware 'Mandarin tree' vase, circa 1932-1936, pattern 3702, shape number probably 443, the slender barrel shaped vase decorated with an elegantly twisted tree with gilded tracery and yellow leaves and vibrant flowering bushes upon a black ground, an enamel floral border to the neck and a wavy border to the base in a lustrous mottled sea green; backstamp underside, pattern and shape number. Height 26.5 cm.