Large English Mason's Ironstone Covered Vase, circa 1820

Each of hexagonal form with gilt dolphin handles, painted in the Famille Rose palette and enriched with blue, the front and back with chrysanthemum issuing from a brown vase and flow...

Pair of English porcelain "Mason's Stoneware" lamps, circa 1820.

English porcelain vase, Chamberlain Worcester, circa 1820.

Large English blue glass centerpiece, circa 1820.

Large Mason's Ironstone Large Chinoiserie Vase, Circa 1835-40. Great as a lamp base or for flowers-the stricking mazarine blue Mason's Ironston...

Rare, antique, large 19th century exhibition ironstone pottery vase by Morley & Ashworth, for the 1862 International Exhibition. Morley & Ashworth had taken over the designs of Mas...

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...

Mason's Ironstone Garniture of Three vases, circa 1835 The three hexagonal-shaped vases are painted with polychrome flowers on a mazarine blue ground. The open-work handles, rim ...