To emphasize the vessel's underbelly, Lycett highlights it with a harmonizing pink-cream glaze enriched with a subtle sponge-daubing of additional gold.
The incident bore similarities with the daubing of a Mark Rothko mural in London's Tate Modern gallery last October, for which Polish national Wlodzimierz Umaniec, 26, was subsequently jailed.
It was reported at the time that the singer had to move into a hotel as the intruders had sprinkled milk and Ribena over much of her flat as well as daubing obscene graffiti on the walls.