Description:

Two Rookwood Vases
Late 19th Century
The first, decorated by Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, dated 1896, having an urn-form, red clay body painted with an underwater scene with sea creatures beneath a brown metallic glaze; the second, dated 1886, having a horizontally ribbed body below a pinched and folded rim and coated in a tiger-eye glaze. The first, impressed with factory mark, date cipher, 804D and painted with the artist's monogram; the second, impressed with factory mark, date and R/ 273/ C. The first with crack to rim; the second with restoration to rim.
Height of first: 7 in (17.8 cm)

    Condition:
  • The first, with several cracks to rim of vase that stretch partly into the body; one crack wraps around the top of one handle; repair to one handle; chip to footrim. The second with restoration to rim.


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September 25, 2010 1:00 PM EDT
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