Rare Pair of Spode Porcelain Serpent Vases
£1,100
the globular bodies painted in the Kakiemon manner with exotic birds standing beside ornamental fences and flowering branches, the tall necks with further long-tailed birds in flight, each vase applied with two tall serpent ear-handles, with very old stapled repairs to one.
Height 31 cm (12.25 inches)
English. Circa 1820
Provenance:
Alfred Gresham Copeland, Robert Copeland (1925-2010), and thence by descent.
Exhibited:
Spode Bicentenary Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1970
Northern Ceramic Society, Hanley Museum, 1989.
An identical single vase is held in the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, Accession No. 379-1899 gifted in memory of Josiah Spode. (illustrated)
