The Susie Cooper exhibition quality vase decorated with a hunter stalking two deer that sold on eBay in January for £3850.
A vase of this size was likely made to showcase Susie Cooper's talent at a major trade or industry show and it is also probable that the piece was decorated by the designer herself. The base is marked with an early triangle backstamp and a script signature.
The £3850 price was claimed as a record although, when premiums are added, it does not quite better the £3400 plus 15 per cent (£3910) achieved for a Panorama (blue motor coach) pattern ginger jar sold at Bonhams in 2001. It bettered a ginger jar decorated with stylised figures made for the 1924 British Empire Exhibition sold for £3000 at Sotheby's Chester in 1990.
