Object Description
A stunning and rare iconic early Art Deco pair Hancock & Sons Morrisware hand painted art pottery vases with flowering thistles by George Cartlidge dating between 1918 and 1926. These stylish bud shaped vases have a very Art Nouveau appearance and Stand on a wide rounded base with shaped body and rounded bulb shaped tops. The vases are hand painted with purple flowering thistles on tall stems applied in a tubelined fashion with green painted scrolling leaves supporting buds set on a mottled yellow ground with blue ground elements around the top and base of the vases. The vases have printed makers marks to the base.