AN ASSEMBLED PAIR OF ENGLISH PÂTE-SUR-PÂTE VASES CIRCA 1890

Estimate

8,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

height 8 1/4 in.
20.9 cm

possibly Brown-Westhead, Moore, by Frederick Schenk, signed, each decorated with a scantily clad maiden in a grotto reserved on a dark-green ground. Some minor wear to gilding.

Catalogue Note

A vase identical to the example illustrated on the left, donated by Brown-Westhead, Moore to the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, is illustrated by Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte: The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, p. 162, fig. 123.