English and European Ceramics and Glass - 23rd May 2017

Lot 298

Four Mason's Ironstone vases 19th century

Estimate £150 - £250

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Description

Four Mason's Ironstone vases 19th century, one C J Mason of octagonal form with rosebud handles, painted in the famille verte palette with flowering branches, another with elaborate gilt scroll handles, painted and gilded with formal foliate scrolls, one of censer shape and enamelled with birds and flowers on a drab green ground, the last Ashworth's and decorated with long-tailed birds on a bright yellow ground, and a Mason's tea canister, enamelled and gilded with chrysanthemum on a mazarin blue ground, various marks, some faults, covers lacking, 21.3cm max. (5)

Provenance: the Doug Godden Collection.