moulded in high-relief with Bacchus and mask profiles, with metal liner (2)

Photographed in the drawing room at Durham Cottage, Chelsea before 1954;
Anthony Denney,'The Oliviers off stage', House and Garden, May 1958, p. 64, illustrated in Vivien's drawing room at Eaton Square, Belgravia.

There is an adhesive at the mid section of the vase between the base and foot, which is starting to flake. There is a hairline crack to the well of the vase, visible to interior and exterior which has been stabilised with two rivets. Some glaze crazing and associated staining. There is a hairline crack at rim and associated rim chip.
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