1804-1813, PUCE CROWNED SCRIPT MARKS

Details

TWO WORCESTER (BARR, FLIGHT & BARR) VASES ON FIXED STAND
1804-1813, puce crowned script marks
Each modeled after the Warwick Vase with gilt entwined vine handles and applied vine-leaf terminals, egg-and-dart everted rim, and pearls applied at the shoulder, the interior of the mouth with foliate scrolls and pendant flowers, one finely painted and named on the underside with a view of 'Romayn's Island, Lake of Killourney, reserved within a gilt band on the yellow ground painted en grisaille with scrolls and shells enclosing mythical beasts, raised on a square plinth with gilt fluted pilasters at each angle, the front panel painted with figures in a landscape vignette, the three remaining sides en suite with the reverse of the vase; the other of similar form and decoration, painted with 'The Task', named and inscribed on the underside with a verse by William Couper from which the scene is taken, with a pale blue ground and en gisaille with a foliate rinceau, the front with a child reading in a landscape
10in. (2.54cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Private Collection, New York; Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 16 December 1944, lot 869

Lot Essay

The shape of the present vases takes its name from the monumental marble excavated in 1771 from Hadrian's Villa in Rome. It was acquired by the noted English scholar and collector by Sir William Hamilton, restored, and sold on to the Earl of Warwick. It is now in the collection of the Glasgow Museum.

See Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, The Antique Collector's Club, 1978, plate 110 for a similar Flight, Barr & Barr vase and plate 106 for a Flight, Barr & Barr spill vase also painted with 'The Task'.

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