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A garniture of three Staffordshire smear glazed stoneware obelisks, circa 1800, possibly Warburton, each obelisk decorated in polychrome enamels with fruit including pears, grapes, cherries and plums, within blue lined borders, and raised on square plinth bases, relief moulded with medallions of country landscapes and classical scenes of Vesta and Cupid, 27.5cm high and 23cm high (3) For a pair of similar obelisks see: Property from the collection of Mrs J. Insley Blair, Christies New York, 21st January 2006, lot 555 and The Alice Tully Collection, also Christies New York, 26th October 1994, lot 362. This lot is probably the garniture illustrated in Hugo Morley Fletcher and Roger McIlroy`s, Christies Pictorial History of European Pottery, 1984, pp. 300-301, no. 18, which was catalogued as Castleford and sold for 100 guineas at Christies London on the 14th October 1963.
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A garniture of three Staffordshire smear glazed stoneware obelisks, circa 1800, possibly Warburton, each obelisk decorated in polychrome enamels with fruit including pears, grapes, cherries and plums, within blue lined borders, and raised on square plinth bases, relief moulded with medallions of country landscapes and classical scenes of Vesta and Cupid, 27.5cm high and 23cm high (3) For a pair of similar obelisks see: Property from the collection of Mrs J. Insley Blair, Christies New York, 21st January 2006, lot 555 and The Alice Tully Collection, also Christies New York, 26th October 1994, lot 362. This lot is probably the garniture illustrated in Hugo Morley Fletcher and Roger McIlroy`s, Christies Pictorial History of European Pottery, 1984, pp. 300-301, no. 18, which was catalogued as Castleford and sold for 100 guineas at Christies London on the 14th October 1963.
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