A PILKINGTON'S LUSTRE POTTERY 'BON ACCORDE' VASE
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A PILKINGTON'S LUSTRE POTTERY 'BON ACCORDE' VASE, c.1908, designed by Walter Crane and painted by Richard Joyce with four angels, their uplifted arms offering up goblets below the everted rim inscribed twice 'Bon Accorde', over a bulbous lower section painted with stylised leaves, faint impressed P, incised 2475, Walter Crane's rebus, and RJ PINX to a highly decorative lustre base, 9 1/4" high (Illustrated) NB In 1904 Britain and France signed an Entente Cordiale, an agreement to improve relations between the two countries and end disputes about their respective colonies. Walter Crane designed the vase to be exhibited at the Franco-British Exhibition in 1908