Lot 17
  • 17

An assembled pair of English pâte-sur-pâte olive green-ground vases circa 1890

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • possibly Brown-Westhead, Moore, by Frederick Schenk, signed, each decorated with a scantily clad maiden in a grotto reserved on a dark-green ground. 
  • ceramic
  • height 8 1/4 in.
  • 20.9 cm
possibly Brown-Westhead Moore, each decorated on the front in white slip by Frederick Schenck, signed, with a scantily clad maiden seated within a grotto.

Condition

Some minor wear to gilding and some scratching to the green ground on the sides..
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Catalogue Note

See catalogue note to lot 14.