Large Antique English Morley & Ashworth 'Mason's' Ironstone Pottery Angel Vase, 1862 Recently Added and only a small number

and only a small number seem to be recorded

From a Fine San Francisco estate

many of these vessels are reassembled from fragments

the neck also having a large blue band of blue continuous Thuluth script on a red background

that sired the American racehorse and leading sire Longfellow

Large Antique English Morley & Ashworth 'Mason's' Ironstone Pottery Angel Vase, 1862 Recently Added and only a small numberRare, antique, large 19th century exhibition ironstone pottery vase by Morley & Ashworth, for the 1862 International Exhibition. Morley & Ashworth had taken over the designs of Mason's Ironstone, after the pottery had fallen into bankruptcy. The vase having a gilded top with twin handles modeled as dolphins sea serpents, the blue ground decorated with scrolling gilded foliate. To the center of the vase is a winged angel holding two of the foliate