A new find, this time from Bob Moores at Nest Egg Antiques, compelled me to open my check book and make a bit more space on my shelves. I just couldn't resist this delightful "Sherratt" spill vase.
Although this vase is unrecorded, its component parts are easily recognizable as "Sherratt." The little figures are found in other "Sherratt" contexts, as you see below.
The painting of the trumpet-like spill vase is consistent with a "Sherratt" attribution, and you see yet another painted in the same way below.
The spill vase from Nest Egg Antiques has what I call a "feathered" base, a distinctive "Sherratt" feature that we find on a good number of other groups from this pot bank.
This feathered base is one of my very favorites. It was on the very first bocage group I bought very many years ago. Alas, I was younger and more trusting in those days, and I have since discovered that that group had very many more 'issues' than the dealer couple who sold it to me disclosed.....but my new purchase from Bob Moores is in great condition, with only the minimal restoration that he disclosed.
Below is another example of the feathered base. This time, it has some of the same little sheep as you see on the base of my new vase.
Below is another example of the feathered base. This time, it has some of the same little sheep as you see on the base of my new vase.
"Sherratt" figures are the most eye-pleasing--and they are the easiest to attribute. That's why I am so ticked when figures without a single "Sherratt" feature are credited to "Sherratt"! It happens too often. Case in point are the two pearlware groups below, sold recently by a major international auction house with a "Sherratt" attribution....yes, I know, they even spelled it wrongly!
