A COALPORT PORCELAIN GARNITURE OF A VASE AND TWO FLOWERPOTS AND STANDS CIRCA 1800-1810

each painted, in London, possibly in the workshop of Thomas Baxter, with a cluster of colorful flowers within a gilt-edged rectangular panel reserved on an iron-red and gilt-striped ground, the vase with floral borders around the neck and foot and affixed on either side with a gilt scroll handle, the flower pots with gilt dolphin mask handles and the stands each raised on three lion paw feet. Some chips and restoration.

The vase: The left handle of the vase is restored and possibly partially made-up. The entire interior of the neck is oversprayed probably concealing damage related to the handle's break. This includes a long forked hair crack running from the center of the back of the vase beneath the shoulder up in one direction to the rim behind the right handle and in the other direction towards the other handle appearing to end just above the shoulder. There is some wear to the gilding around the rim, the shoulder, the edges and corners of the back, and the good handle. Flower pots and stands: Some typical wear to the paw feet, the rim edges, and mask handles. One paw foot is restored. One pot has a minor 1/2 inch slice chip to the foot rim. Otherwise in generallly good condition.
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A vase painted with an oval figural panel, but otherwise similarly decorated, signed by Thomas Baxter and dated 1802, is illustrated by Geoffrey A. Godden, Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelains, p. 217, no. 95.