Royal Worcester Highland Cattle Vase by John Stinton, 1922

A Royal Worcester vase and cover by John Stinton, 1922, the…
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A Royal Worcester vase and cover by John Stinton, 1922, the ovoid vase with high set grotesque handles decorated to the body with scale forms in shot colours and a cartouche of Highland cattle drinking in a sublime landscape, signed J Stinton lower left of image, a misty loch scene to the reverse, raised on a moulded pedestal to a circular base, puce backstamp underside, registration mark and shape number 2330, 35.5 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.
  • Cartouche - An ornamental panel in the form of of a shield, oval or rectangular scroll with curling edges. It may be carved into the back of a chair or the top of a sideboard, or present on a piece of silver or jewellery, and contain the initials of the original owner, heraldic symbols, or some other inscription, such as the details of a presentation.

    In ceramics the term defines the central area of a vase or similar with a decorative border in one of the shapes above, into which a decorative scene or figures have been painted.

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