William LOWE, Longton, Pair of Far Eastern styled vases with flower branches and butterflies

English faience (with craquelure underneath), enamel black, colorful enamel decoration, stencil (print), gilding; height 17 cm; spout diameter 9.5 cm;
minor rubbing of black background and spot technological blemishes at top edge of one vase, gilt rubbing;
Signed (both vases) in raspberry print: semicircular: Royal Sydney Ware / 2-part closed crown with small cross / W.LOWE / L., black enamel: 4092
England, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent district, Longton, William Lowe, circa 1915 (brand name: Royal Sydney Ware ).
Pair of spherical vases with low, rimmed necks (edges). Surrounding the bellies, carved from a semi-matte black background, branches of colorful pink, orange-yellow and purple flowers, with traces of outline (print-stencil) and colorful butterflies; edges of vases and outlines of branches - gilded.
Products of William Lowe - producing fine faience, so-called Egyptian black (black basalt) and porcelain in Longton since 1875; from about 1915 Lowe introduced colorfully decorated ceramics with black backgrounds, to which he gave the trade name Royal Sydney Ware (from the name of his factory - Sydney Works (High Street & Sutherland Road).