A rare Sunflower Pottery vase by Sir Edmund Elton

A rare Sunflower Pottery vase by Sir Edmund Elton, shouldered form with knopped neck, slip decorated with flowers in ochre and green on a blue ground with two tone gold lustre painted Elton mark 22.5cm. high Literature Malcolm Haslam Elton Ware Richard Dennis Publication page 33 plate 17 for a comparable example. Elton began to experiment with the use of lustre glazes circa 1902, the first examples using it as an additional background glaze.