Three interesting Bow vases, circa 1758-68 Comprising a bottle vase of globular shape with a tall slender nick, attractively painted with sprays and scattered sprigs of garden flowers, two butterflies and further insects in flight, brown line rim, 20cm high, and two 'frill' vases with mask head handles surrounded by borders of applied florets, one of baluster shape with pierced panels on the shoulder, unusually painted in blue with floral garlands and sprigs, the handles linked by a husk border, 19.7cm high, the other of trumpet shape with pierced panels below the rim, painted with a variety of scattered insects and encrusted with colourful flowers, 16.8cm high (3) Footnotes: Provenance David Redstone Collection (baluster 'frill' vase) Anton Gabszewicz Collection Literature Elizabeth Adams and David Redstone, Bow Porcelain (1991), p.166, fig.103 (baluster frill vase) It is most unusual to find a 'frill' vase decorated in underglaze blue, with this particular shape of vase nearly always having enamelled decoration and usually applied with modelled flowers. The present example is curious and perhaps unique in its simplicity and decoration. A similar bottle vase was sold by Bonhams on 2 June 2004, lot 245 and a related example in the Geoffrey Freeman Collection is illustrated by Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain (1982), p.93, no.137. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing