A very rare West Pans vase, circa 1764-70 Of baluster form with a hexagonal neck and base, the elaborate and highly distinctive green twisted stalk handles issuing sinuous terminals, painted to one side with a landscape vignette of an exotic bird perched on a fence, the other with a colourful spray of flowers including a large pink rose, surrounded by scattered sprigs, a border of large pink diamonds around the neck, the base with formal floral borders in blue and pink, raised on six paw-like feet picked out in green, 21cm high Footnotes: Provenance With A J Filkins, October 1974 (as Longton Hall) One of a pair of vases and covers of very similar form in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain (1957), pl.21 (as Longton Hall). The creamy glaze and distinctive palette, particularly the light orange and green, is typical of West Pans. A number of West Pans plates and mugs with similar decoration of an exotic bird on a fence are recorded, see for example the mug illustrated by George Haggarty, Out of the Blue (2008), p.38, no.47. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing