Decorative Items : Vases and Jars

West German Vase, 450-3

This vase is 13 cm high, with a mulberry glaze decorated with a cream slip in a marble-effect design and highlighted with gilding. The backstamp reads 'West Germany' with the number 450-3. There is a curved mark on the bottom inside of the vase which has been made during manufacture and there is a ½ cm surface scratch on the slip decoration which is too light to show up in the photograph. Otherwise this vase is in very good condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing.

West German Vase

Crown Fine China Swan-shaped Posy Vase

This is a very pretty little vase in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing. The swan shape is decorated front and back with a design of flowers and leaves in soft pastel bluish-pink and yellow and embellished with gilding. The dimensions are 7.5 cm high over the vase opening, approx. 11.5 cm high to the top of the head and approx. 12 cm from the tail tip to the breast. The backstamp shows a red and blue crown and reads: Crown, Fine Bone China, Staffordshire, England.

Crown Fine China Swan Vase

Porcelana Ibis Vase, Aveiro, Portugal

This graceful bisque porcelain vase is 20.5 cm high. The decoration of flowers and leaves is in shades of pinks, blues, yellow and green and its translucent delicacy is beautifully offset by the vase’s moulded bisque porcelain body. The rim is decorated with gilding. The backstamp shows an ibis bird and reads: Porcelanas Ibis, Aveiro, Portugal. This vase is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks or crazing.

Porcelana Ibis Vase

Mill Pottery (N. Ireland) Stoneware Vase by Tom Agnew

This striking stoneware vase by Tom Agnew of the Mill Pottery in Co. Tyrone is 14.5 cm high and 7.5 cm diameter at the base tapering to a narrow, bottle-type top. The body is light beige clay and it is half-glazed in dark blue. The impressed backstamp reads: Agnew. This vase is in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing.

Mill Pottery Vase

Royal Doulton China Lotus Vase “Carnations”

an international reputation. He has designed the “Carnations” range for Royal Doulton. This striking china vase is 20.5 cm high and 23.5 circumference at the bottom. The flowing shape is enhanced by the lines of the carnation decoration in soft grey-green and pink and the gilded band round the top edge. The backstamp has the Royal Doulton logo and reads: Royal Doulton; Impressions, by Gerald Gulotta; Lotus Vase; “Carnations”; © Royal Doulton Tableware Ltd. This vase is in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing.

Royal Doulton Carnations Vase

Salt-glaze Stoneware Vase (possibly American)

This handsome vase is 13 cm high and in perfect condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing. The body is light grey-beige stoneware, with a semi-translucent brown glaze. There is no maker’s mark of any kind , but I think that it may be American: light grey, salt-glaze stoneware seems to be more common in America than on this side of the Atlantic.

Salt Glaze Stoneware Vase

Royal Norfolk Vase: Peony Decoration

The Royal Norfolk Pottery is situated in the Staffordshire town of Shelton, where it was established on Norfolk Street in 1958. This handsome hexagonal vase is 19.75 cm high. It is decorated with a design of peonies in shades of dusky pink and grey. It is backstamped with a crown and: Royal Norfolk, Staffordshire, England, with the number 20 near the backstamp. This vase is in very good condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing.

Royal Norfolk Vase

CHAPELLE DES POTS, France: bud vase in Coq design

Faiencerie Jean Alexiu was founded in the late 1950’s in the small village of Chapelle des Pots in France. This family-owned firm has revived the tradition of high-quality earthenware for which Chapelle des Pots was for so long famed. This miniature narrow-necked vase, 10.75 cm high with a globular body is decorated in the Coq pattern. There is a small chip on the underside of the base and two tiny marks on the glaze which look as if they occurred during firing, otherwise this charming vase is in very good condition with no cracks or crazing.

Chapelle des Pots Vase

Crathes Pottery Bud Vase: Speedwell

The Crathes Pottery is situated at Milton of Crathes, Banchory, Grampian, Scotland.

This lovely stoneware vase is hand-thrown, glazed in an off-white shade and hand-painted with a design of speedwell in blue and soft green-grey. It stands 11.5 cm high. The narrow neck is 1.75 cm diameter at the opening. The backstamp reads ‘Crathes Pottery’ enclosed in a circle. This vase is in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing.

Crathes Pottery Vase

Celtic Irish Fine Earthenware Vase

Celtic Irish Fine Earthenware (latterly Celtic Ceramics) ceased operations I think some time in the 1980’s and their products have become very collectable. The embossed pattern on this vase gives the effoct of the grains and knots of wood. It is glazed ina fairly thin dark brown. It is 14.5 cm high and is backstamped with ‘Irish Fine Earthenware : Celtic : Made in the Republic of Ireland’ and a shamrock motif. There is also a pattern number which looks like ‘113/13R’. On the outside top there is a little light crazing, There is also a crack about 1 cm long running down from the rim, but it is not very noticeable (you can just about see it in the photo),. Otherwise this vase is in good condition, with no cracks, chips or crazing other than described here.

Fine Irish Earthenware Vase

Palissy Small Ginger Jar : Freesia

This is a lovely Palissy china ginger jar in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or crazing. It is 9.5 cm high, including the lid. The body is ivory coloured, graduating to pale yellow at the top of the jar. It is decorated with a spray of pink, yellow and mauve freesias on the lid and the front and with a spray of pink and yellow freesias on the back. The lid has a band of gilding round the bottom edge. The backstamp reads: *Palissy, England, Est. 1853; Freesia; A division of Royal Worcester Spode. There is a pattern number 7-7 close to the backstamp.

*The Royal Worcester Porcelain Company bought Palissy in 1958; Royal Worcester and Spode formed one company in 1976; Palissy Pottery closed in 1989. This jar must have been made some time between 1976 and 1989.

Palissy Ginger Jar

Sadler Ginger Jar : Sweet Pea

Possibly mid-to-late 20th century; 18 cm high. The firm of J Sadler and Son of Burslem was founded in 1899 and in 2000 was taken over by Churchill China. The sweet pea decoration on this jar is delicately coloured and very finely wrought. While this attractive jar would enhance any collection the condition sadly is not perfect: the green band on the rim of the lid is rubbed off in parts. there is crazing on the bottom and a crack about 1 cm long on the top rim – all this is reflected in the low price.

Sadler Ginger Jar