Mason's Ironstone Japan Pattern Vases, a Pair

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 ...

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...

Creamware finger or quintal Vase, 19th century, The English pottery creamware finger or quintal vases The five-fingered flower vase has a molded desig...

The octagonal-from vase has a deep blue ground and is painted in gilt and yellow with Rococo scrolls of foliage and vases of flowers. The dragon scroll handles and decorated with gil...

This is a rare ironstone vase, made by the Mason's factory in the early 19th century. The vase is hexagonal in section with a baluster shape and two salamander handles, one either...

This is a good spill vase or beaker made by Mason's ironstone, Lane Delph, England in the mid 19th century, circa 1850. The pattern is called Japan Willow...

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...

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...