Flamminian Ware' a Moorcroft Pottery vase designed by William Moorcroft for Liberty & Co, waisted, ovoid form with swollen neck, incised and tubeline decorated with an Art Nouveau foliate roundel in green and blue on a streaked green ground, incised signature and printed Liberty mark, paper labels PEM Loan 10, museum restored stress hairlines to top rim, 32cm. high Provenance The David Coachworth and Peter Myers Collection. Exhibited Liberty's 1875-1975 An Exhibition to Mark the Firm's Centenary, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 1975, page 86 catalogue number D.238B.

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