Harry Ayrton Royal Worcester Covered Vase

A Royal Worcester covered vase by Harry Ayrton, 1960, the…
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A Royal Worcester covered vase by Harry Ayrton, 1960, the footed vase of ovoid profile with moulded grotesque handles and relief decoration to the body in gold and shot colours, decorated with a fruit study signed H. Ayrton to lower right of image, a spray of bramble fruits to the reverse, black backstamp underside and shape number 1691, 36 cm high

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  • 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.
  • Oviform /ovoid - The outline loosely resembling the shape of an egg.

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