TWO? ROCKINGHAM CAMPANA SHAPED POT POURRI VASES AND COVERS, C1830-42 encrusted with flowers, one vase painted to either side with shells or fruit and flowers, the other with a wooded landscape or flowers, the interior of the second vase with three flowering boughs alternating with gilt seaweed, 34cm h, puce printed griffin mark and painted Cl. 3 in gilt or In Italy in red scriptComparative Literature: Another example, also finely painted with shells and marked Cl. 3 in gilt, is illustrated Cox (A & A), Rockingham 1745-1842), Woodbridge 2001, col plt 92 Vase (shells) good condition with some typical but slight chipping of the flowers and leaves and on the painted fruit one or two spots of flaking of the enamel, the shells undamaged, the gilt leaves overhanging the rim undamaged, scarce in this condition
Vase (landscape and flowers) a piece of the foot broken out and restuck; hairline crack in foot, wear to gilding on handles, slight chipping of the leaves and flowers. One cover cracked and flower dome broken off and restuck, the other cover with extensive old restortion