Brighton Pavilion Style Pottery Garden Seat
of hexagonal barrel form, decorated in chinoiserie style with dragons and prunus on a lettuce-green ground. By Mason’s factory but un-marked.
Height 53cm
first half of 19th century
Two similar pairs, of which this might be a surviving example, were on the staircase of Thomas Hope’s house, The Deepdene. In the watercolour (here illustrated), a pink-ground pair is the most obvious, but lurking behind them, a few steps lower, is another pair, possibly with a green ground