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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Vase

1928 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Porcelain vase of globular form with short neck and wide mouth, with painted decoration of a scene of white rabbits in underglaze greys, pale brown and green.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with underglaze decoration
Brief description
Vase, porcelain with decoration of white rabbits painted underglaze, painted by Vilhelm Fischer, made by Royal Copenhagen, Denmark, 1928.
Physical description
Porcelain vase of globular form with short neck and wide mouth, with painted decoration of a scene of white rabbits in underglaze greys, pale brown and green.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '35A H' (Incised)
  • Three wavy lines beneath a crown (Painted in underglaze blue)
  • '16.4.1928/VILH TH. FISCHER' (Painted in underglaze blue)
Credit line
Given by the maker
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 40 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Accession number
C.114-1931

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Record createdSeptember 25, 2008
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