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

Vase

ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of porcelain, painted with enamels blue de roiand gilded, and with a hemispherical body, hung with festoons of white drapery in relief on a blue ground, and the neck contracts upwards and is decorated with spiral fluting coloured blue, and with gilt festoons of foliage hanging from lions' masks in relief, and with a beaded rim and spreading foot resting on an eight-sided plinth.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Vase of porcelain, painted with enamels and gilded, and with a hemispherical body, made by Derby Porcelain Factory, Derby, ca. 1775.
Physical description
Vase of porcelain, painted with enamels blue de roiand gilded, and with a hemispherical body, hung with festoons of white drapery in relief on a blue ground, and the neck contracts upwards and is decorated with spiral fluting coloured blue, and with gilt festoons of foliage hanging from lions' masks in relief, and with a beaded rim and spreading foot resting on an eight-sided plinth.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.2cm
  • Diameter: 12.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
'G8' (Incised)
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
The form is adapted from a Sèvres model known as the Vase flacon à mouchoirs.
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Marks, London, for £7 in January 1873
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 367 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:435-1885

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Record createdJanuary 9, 2009
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