Circa 1813-20 Early "Mason's Patent Ironstone China" Jug

Circa 1830-48 large Mason's ironstone red scale Chinoiserie jug or pitcher, English. Marked in black: Mason's Patent Ironstone China; with swag banner & crown. Octagonal with twig ha...

Circa 1830-48 large Mason's ironstone hydra scale Chinoiserie jug or pitcher, English. Marked in black: Mason's Patent Ironstone China; with swag banner & crown. Octagonal with hydra...

Circa 1830-48 large Mason's ironstone red scale Chinoiserie jug or pitcher, English. Marked in black: Mason's Patent Ironstone China; with swag banner & crown. Octagonal with twig ha...

Circa 1830-48 small Mason's ironstone red scale Chinoiserie jug or pitcher, English. Marked in black: Mason's Patent Ironstone China; with swag banner & crown. Octagonal with twig ha...

Mason's ironstone Japan pattern pair of vases, circa 1830-1840. The vases are decorated in an imari palette with scroll handles highlighted in tu...

This is a very rare ironstone vase, in the Chinese style, all hand painted in the coloured dragon pattern, made by the Mason's factory in the early 19th century. Both the vase shape and the pattern are very rare. The vase has a bottle shape with a fairly tall neck, having two dolphin head handles, with attached loops. (NOTES ON SHAPE This vase style is a copy of a much earlier Chinese bronze vase shape produced in the Ming, Hongwu period of 1368 - 1398, which had similar decorative animal head side handles with loops. ( See the book Chinese Ceramics by He Li, page 216, published by Thames & Hudson. ). Also On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 204; The square handles and rings illustrate the metal origins of the shape of the vase. Similar examples have been excavated in Chinese tombs dating to the fifteenth and sixteenth century, suggesting that the shape was particularly popular at that time.) This vase is beautifully hand decorated in a more complex variant of the Coloured Chinese Dragon pattern, with strong coloured enamels depicting a green dragon on one side and a pink dragon...

This is an ironstone Vase in the blue Hawthorne and fence and bowl pattern, made by Mason's Ironstone of Lane Delph, Staffordshire, England, during the first half of the 19th century...

Hexagonal Ironstone Vases & Covers, Mason's Ironstone or Ashworth, Circa 1845. A stunning and elegant pair of large, probably Mason's Ironstone, blue and white hexagonal ironsto...