Richard Joyce for Pilkington, a Royal Lancastrian lustre vase, circa 1920, shouldered form, painted with pairs of Roman soldiers between olive trees and plinth, above a band of stylised honeysuckle motifs, the rim with band of vines, impressed and painted marks, 27.5cm high Provenance: Richard Dennis Pilkington's Pottery exhibition 1980, number 226; illustrated in Cross, A J, 1980, Pilkington's Royal Lancastrian Pottery, p.35, pl.xxiv

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