A pair of Derby white biscuit porcelain two-handled vases, c.1785-95, incised crowned crossed baton and D marks, incised shape No. 116 and repairer’s star mark for Isaac Farnesworth, each with a fluted neck and leaf-moulded loop handles, applied...

A pair of Derby white biscuit porcelain two-handled vases, c.1785-95, incised crowned crossed baton and D marks, incised shape No. 116 and repairer’s star mark for Isaac Farnesworth, each with a fluted neck and leaf-moulded loop handles, applied with a ribbon-tied garland of flowers above an acanthus-leaf band to the lower body, on a fluted foot and square base, the tallest 16cm high (2) Provenance: Christie’s, London, 11 March 1996, lot 36. Note: For the model see John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, London (Barrie & Jenkins), 1980. p. 134, fig. 146. A pair of this form are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum nos. C.294-1935 and C.294A-1935).
One handle broken through (into three sections) and re-stuck. The other (the example with an incised * to the interior of the neck) has two firing cracks (these are near the top of the up-turned acanthus leaves). Both vases have some slight chipping to the flowers and ribbons and some typical slight firing cracks, all of which are minor.