A pair of English pâte-sur-pâte green-ground vases late 19th century

possibly Brown-Westhead Moore, each decorated on the front in white slip by Frederick Schenck, signed, with a scantily clad maiden seated within a grotto.

In generally good condition apart from some very minor and occasional wear to the gilding along the edges.
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A vase identical to the example illustrated on the left, donated by Brown-Westhead Moore to the Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, is illustrated by Bernard Bumpus, Pâte-sur-Pâte: The Art of Ceramic Relief Decoration, 1849-1992, p. 162, fig. 123.