A pair of Derby campana vases circa 1815

finely painted, possibly by William Pegg, continuously around the exterior with colorful flowers, raised on a square base, crowned crossed batons and D marks and numeral 6 in iron-red.

Both vases with some very minor occasional rubbing to the gilding along the rim. One has some flaking to the green enamels. The other has a fine stress crack issuing from where the base of the vase meets its stem running vertically down the side and curving to the underside of the square socle. There are some very minor minuscule pinhead chips to the edges of the square base.
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A large campana vase similarly painted with colorful flowers is attributed to William Pegg, the Quaker, in John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, p. 234, no. 300. A similar pair of campana vases from the D. A. Hoyte Collection is illustrated in Franklin A. Barrett and Arthur L. Thorpe, Derby Porcelain 1750-1848, cat. no. 172, where the authors discuss the invention of a new gilding technique shortly before 1800 that enabled the execution of finer and more elaborate "arabesque patterns" such as those seen in the present example. A comparable pair of vases from the Rous Lench Collection was sold by Sotheby's London, July 1, 1986, lot 323 and another pair by Phillip's London, September 9, 1992, lot 456.