1660
Vase — CRC# 1660
- Description
- A rare Plymouth large hexagonal baluster shaped vase and domed cover, with pinecone and leaf knop, painted in coloured enamels with butterflies and other winged insects, and a ladybird, with applied garlands of coloured flowers and leaves, suspended from puce and blue ribbon ties, within bright green and gilt flower and ‘C’ scroll borders, the base with stiff leaves, picked out in green, puce and gilt, 16” high, circa 1769-70, painted tin mark in iron red
- Date
- 1768-70
- Condition
- Perfect
- Mark
- Red painted tin
- Mark Group
- Tin
- Decorator
- No mark
- Maker
- Cookworthy
- Historic Provenance
- Vanessa Stevenson collection No. 53
- CRC#
- 1660
- Type
- Vase
Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance
H0545 · 1863
One of the vases illustrated in The Art Journal of 1863
H0548 · 1873
One of the vases illustrated in a cutting from Owen when in the collection of Francis Fry in 1873
H0546 · 1878
Illustration from Llewellyn Jewitt's The Ceramic Art of Great Britain
Source: The Ceramic Art of Great Britain
H0549 · 1912
Priscilla Fry's illustration
Source: Owen's Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol bound with 185 extra illustrations
H0547 · 1915
One of the vases in the collection of T.W.Fry in 1915
H0535 · 2021
One of the vases (1659) in the Vanessa Stevenson sale at Albert Amor
Source: The Vanessa Stevenson Collection