Rare Matt duck egg blue coloured vase with 22ct gold highlights by Colin Melbourne for Crown Devon. Modernist Memphis Ware, a classic mid century design - beautiful quality.

Shape CM5 , impressed and printed signature to base.

Colin Melbourne (1928 – 5 August 2009) was an English sculptor, ceramicist, painter and academic. He is known particularly for several statues that stand in various locations in Stoke-on-Trent.

Melbourne was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, After training as a modeller at Burslem School of Art, he was an assistant modeller at Wedgwood. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, which he attended from 1949 to 1951, and afterwards created designs for companies in the Staffordshire Potteries, including Beswick Pottery and Crown Devon.

His work is represented in the V&A museum.