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Three-piece Garniture

Dateca. 1810

Maker Barr, Flight and Barr (1804 - 1813)

OriginEngland, Worcester

MediumHard-paste porcelain

Dimensions2024-106,1: OH: 5 1/8"; OL: 4 11/16" (beak to beak); OD: 4 7/16". 2024-106,2: OH 3 5/8"; OD: 3 3/16". 2024-106,3: OH: 3 5/8"; OD: 3 1/4".

Credit LineGift of Clay H. Barr and Jay D.A. Barr

Object number2024-106,1-3

DescriptionGarniture: Three-piece garniture of one large and two small campaniform vases each on gilt square foot and rising to a flaring rim. The larger with gilt eagle handles and the smaller with gilt eagle’s head-and-ring handles, all interrupting a band of white beadwork. Each decorated with a green ground patterned with grey cailloute to mimic ray skin and reserved on the front with a pale, yellow-ground panel that is bat-printed in black with classical scenes. The larger vase with an equestrian warrior rearing above another crouching on the ground. The smaller each with a maiden before a sacrificial altar. The underside of the foot of each vase impressed with a crowned “BFB” mark for Barr, Flight, and Barr.
MarkingsThe underside of the foot of each vase impressed with a crowned “BFB” mark for Barr, Flight, and Barr.
Provenance[Jean Sewell Antiques, London, UK]; purchased by Clay H. Barr (Norfolk, VA); 2024, given to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA)