Limited Edition Moorcroft Vase - 'Tasmanian Blue Gum' - Moorcroft

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A large Moorcroft limited edition Australiana vase, 'Tasmanian Blue Gum' pattern, designed by Sally Tuffin, circa 1992, of baluster form decorated with flowering gum nuts amongst gum leaves on a blue ground, impressed factory mark, made for E.A. Joyce & Sons,Tasmanian Centenary, 1893-1993, signed J.Moorcroft,edition number 45/50, 41.5 high. Literature, Paul Atterbury, Moorcroft Revised Edition 1897-1993, Denis and Edwards, England, 1993, p. 193 (illustrated, another example), It is understood that only 45 of the 50 were released as the remainder were not up to the required standard

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