Royal Worcester Vase with Grotesque Masks and Flowers

A Royal Worcester vase, of ovoid shape on dolphin pedestal,…
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A Royal Worcester vase, of ovoid shape on dolphin pedestal, surmounted by a pierced frieze with grotesque masks, and painted flowers on blush-ivory ground, heightened in gilt, and raised on three paw feet, date code 1894, shape 1639. Height 22 cm.

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  • Frieze - An architectural term denoting the flat, shaped or convex horizontal surface of furniture, between the architrave and the cornice, usually found on a cabinet or bookcase, or on desks and tables where it may include drawers, the area between the top and the legs. In ceramics, the term refers to the banding, of usually a repeating pattern, on the rims of plates and vases.
  • Oviform /ovoid - The outline loosely resembling the shape of an egg.
  • Grotesque - Grotesque decoration is any fanciful ornament applied to furniture and decorative arts, and includes distorted faces, mythical animals such as satyrs and sphinxes and less frequently fantastical fruit and flower forms.

    The Martin Brothers who set up their pottery at the end of the nineteenth century in Southall, Middlesex derived their fame from their hand made models of grotesque stoneware birds.

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