A large and impressive pair of Copeland bough pots or jardinières 2nd half 19th century

A large and impressive pair of Copeland bough pots or jardinières 2nd half 19th century, possibly made for the 1862 Exhibition, painted by Charles Ferdinand Hürten, one side with arrangements of flowers including primrose, pansy, iris, the other with grapes and other fruit, within rich borders of raised gilding, reserved on a green ground, each signed Hürten to both sides, printed marks, 35cm across. (2)

Charles Ferdinand Hürten (1820-1901)was an active porcelain painter in Paris where he came to the attention of William Taylor Copeland, who took two years to persuade him to come and work at Copeland. Many of his first works were for the factory's exhibits at the London International Exhibition of 1862. Hürten received many special commissions, including a set of panels for the Grand Drawing Room at Chatsworth created for the Duchess of Devonshire, however he stayed loyal to the Copeland factory where he remained until the 1890s.

In 1874 the Art Journal reported, 'Hürten has no superior in flower painting, especially on pieces sufficiently large to give full scope to his vigorous yet delicate pencil; and his perfect feeling for all the beauties of texture and colour in his favourite subjects is sufficiently obvious. He makes us see he is as much a florist as an artist, and as true a student of form and colour.'