A large Royal Worcester vase and cover painted by Charley Baldwyn, dated 1890


The shoulders, neck and foot moulded with classical details and coloured in dusky pink and green highlighted in gold, the ivory-ground body painted with two rabbits amongst grasses and other vegetation, a windswept tree in the background, the reverse with more grasses and a flight of birds, 46.5cm high, puce mark, shape number 1399, impressed date letter for 1890 (2)
|A closely related watercolour of two rabbits by Charley Baldwyn is in the Royal Worcester pattern book archive preserved in the Museum of Royal Worcester. Another vase with rabbits by the same artist was sold by Christie's New York on 19-20 October 2011, lot 548. During the 1890s Baldwyn and the other Worcester factory artists were rarely allowed to sign their vases.