A pair of Weldon creamware four-tier flower vases, modern

supported on recumbent lions, the pedestal bases with claw feet with a crackle glaze, black marks and purple Chatsworth mark; together with another pair, glazed porcelain, Chatsworth mark, 54cm., 21¼in. and 54.5cm., 21½in. high

Bruce Weber, Love, 'Burning Spirit, A Play With 5 Characters; A Ghost: "Kick" Kennedy, A Grandmother: Duchess of Devonshire, A Mother: Stella Tennant, A Son: Marcel Lasnet, A Tailor: Nicolas Ghesquiére',  September 2010, illustrated in the Dining Room at the Old Vicarage, Edensor;
Bruce Weber, Town & Country, 'Ladies of the House', March 2014, p. 136, one photographed in the Dining Room at the Old Vicarage, Edensor

One of the spire finials on one of the creamware vases has repaired shallow chips. Otherwise in overall good condition.
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The design of these vases, which were specially produced in limited numbers for the Chatsworth Estate Shops, was inspired by the important late 17th century Delft flower vases on view in the State Rooms at Chatsworth.