Lot Essay
See Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte, The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration 1849-1992, Essex, 1992, pp. 162-163 for a similar vase and a discussion on the free-lance status of Frederick Schenck.
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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A PAIR OF ENGLISH PATE-SUR-PATE DARK-GREEN GROUND VASES
GILT SHAPE NO. 5639B, PERHAPS BROWN-WESTHEAD, MOORE OR GEORGE JONES, SIGNED SCHENCK, CIRCA 1890
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A PAIR OF ENGLISH PATE-SUR-PATE DARK-GREEN GROUND VASES
GILT SHAPE NO. 5639B, PERHAPS BROWN-WESTHEAD, MOORE OR GEORGE JONES, SIGNED SCHENCK, CIRCA 1890
Each of flattened oviform, the short neck with a band of holly flanked by fixed gilt ring handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a diaphanously clad nymph fishing with a small boy within gilt line and bead surround
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high (2)
GILT SHAPE NO. 5639B, PERHAPS BROWN-WESTHEAD, MOORE OR GEORGE JONES, SIGNED SCHENCK, CIRCA 1890
Each of flattened oviform, the short neck with a band of holly flanked by fixed gilt ring handles, finely painted and hand tooled in white slip with a diaphanously clad nymph fishing with a small boy within gilt line and bead surround
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) high (2)