Rare Derby porcelain two part vase. Daniel Lucas, c. 1810.
£4,900.00
An exceptional and rare Derby porcelain two part vase, c. 1810. Finely painted in the manner of Daniel Lucas, with an oval panel, depicting a traveller riding a donkey before a river, in a woodland landscape. A ruined monastery, and a bridge in the background.
The panel suspended from a garland of vibrantly painted roses, tied beneath a blue bow knotted ribbon. Gilded insects are scattered around the salmon pink ground, and a continuous Greek key fret motif adorns the rim of the trumpet shaped vase.
Set upon a seperate twin handled lower section, of bulbous form, similarly decorated to the upper section.
Crossed batons and crown factory mark in iron red to the base.
Height – 35cm, 13 3/4”.
Diameter – 24 cm, 9 1/2”.
Similar vases are illustrated by John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, p. 232, pl. 52.
Stanley W. Fisher, The Decoration of English Porcelain, p. 186, pl. 110.
Condition: Typical minor wear to the gilding, commensurate with the age of the vase.
