A GROUP OF FOUR BARR, FLIGHT AND BARR PORCELAIN VASES CIRCA 1810-15

comprising: two pale-green ground vases and a salmon-ground spill vase reserved with a panel finely painted with an arrangement of seashells and corals and a turquoise-ground spill vase painted with a floral panel, all shell-decorated vases with impressed crowned BFB marks, the pale-green ground vases with painted crown and script Barr, Flight & Barr address mark or royal coat of arms and Prince of Wales mark, the salmon-ground spill vase with script Barr, Flight & Barr mark.

Salmon-ground spill vase- some minor wear to gilding in the interior. Green-gound vases- the two-handled vase missing its cover and with multiple restored breaks along the rim measuring approximately 6 inches. English turquoise-ground spill vase- has an approximate one-inch restored and regilt area on the rim at the back of the vase probably covering small chip/s.
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A spill vase similar to the present examples is illustrated by Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain 1783-1840, 1978, p. 114, pl. 106. Also see Sandon, p. 87, pl. 74 for a pair of two-handled vases with covers similar to the pale green-ground vase.