jar

George Owen 1845 - 1917

Summary

Public: Flattened circular jar on three mask feet, cream coloured bone china, body finely pierced with complex geometric pattern, with applied green reliefs and gilt details. Private: Flattened circular jar on flat base, off-white bone china, with three applied dull green shaped bracket feet, each with relief mask and gilt edges. Sides taper inward to recessed rim, with reticulated honeycomb pattern to upper body and geometric pattern to lower body, network picked out with gilt spots and bordered by milled gilt rims. Shallow domed broad cover with gilt lambrequin border and milled rim to sides, reticulated geometric pattern to top, picked out with gilt spots and embellished with circular border of applied green beads in centre.