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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 140, Factory Ceramics

Vase

ca. 1909 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain vase with cylindrical body and wide neck, covered with blue crystalline glaze and silver gilt mounts at rim and base, the rim in the shape of a band of beech leaves, the base with a frieze of mushrooms or toadstools.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with crytalline glaze
Brief description
Vase, porcelain with blue crystalline glaze and silver gilt mounts, manufactured by Royal Copenhagen, glazed by Valdemar Engelhardt, the mounts by the firm of Anton Michelsen, Denmark, ca. 1909.
Physical description
Porcelain vase with cylindrical body and wide neck, covered with blue crystalline glaze and silver gilt mounts at rim and base, the rim in the shape of a band of beech leaves, the base with a frieze of mushrooms or toadstools.
Dimensions
  • Height: 25.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • ‘ROYAL COPENHAGEN’ and a crown (Printed in green)
  • Three wavy lines, 'VE' in monogram and 'V934' (Painted in underglaze blue)
  • 'EP', three towers, 'MICHELSEN', a crown and '9255 09 HCG ER' (Stamped on the metal base)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 37 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
C.86-1987

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Record createdSeptember 24, 2008
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