A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE FIGURAL FLOWER VASE CIRCA 1800

modeled as a kneeling Atlas supporting a globe pierced for flowers and transfer-printed in black with floral sprays and sprigs, on a square marbleized base. Minor small chips.

The glaze crackled all over, but most noticeably in the globe and his upper torso. There is considerable flaking to the black enamel around the central aperture and holes in the globe; and there is also flaking to the brown enamel on the top, edges and sides of the base. Hercules with an extremely minor 1-mm. shallow chip under the middle toe of his right foot; the outer edge of the footrim of the base on his right side with a ¼-inch (5-mm.) chip, and there are a few other tiny chips under the footrim edge.
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