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A Kerr & Binns Worcester…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
25-Mar-2024
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Description:
A Kerr & Binns Worcester porcelain vase, dated 1862, decorated by Josiah Rushton and James and Thomas Scott Callowhill, of flattened baluster shape on a square foot with a pair of bronze-painted classical busts to the shoulders, the neck, foot, and relief details in pink, green, and gold, the front modelled in low relief with strapwork and foliage and an angel-crested double frame enclosing portraits of Francesco I de' Medici, grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife Bianca Cappello by Rushton, the reverse similarly modelled, its frame enclosing the initials of the portrait subjects flanking a roundel decorated with a crest, printed red shield factory mark with date underside together with a monogram device of the three decorators' initials conjoined, 21.5 cm high. Other notes: the attribution of the portraits to Rushton has previously been confirmed by Henry Sandon.. Condition: overall appearance good, one chip and gilding loss to left hand corner of the foot, wear some aspects of the figural handles together with two small chips (one to lyre, the other maidens head)
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Category:
Unclassified