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A LARGE DOULTON (BURSLEM) CREAMWARE GOLD-GROUND VASE

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A LARGE DOULTON (BURSLEM) CREAMWARE GOLD-GROUND VASE
CIRCA 1900, IRON-RED PRINTED AND IMPRESSED MARKS

Of baluster form with everted mouth, the underside of the mouth and lower body painted in blue and white with overlapping acanthus, the body similarly painted in the pre-Raphaelite style on a stippled gold ground with allegorical figures of Spring, thwtrumpet neck and flaring foot enriched with gilt floral arabesques and acanthus reserved against a burnt orange ground--31in. (78.8cm.) high