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

Vase

ca. 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of porcelain, transfer-printed in black enamel, and with an ovoid body and concave neck, and on one side is a landscape with a monumental fountain and ruined buildings, with two figures crossing a bridge in the foreground, and the sea is in the distance, and on the reverse side is printed with a view of ruined classical colonnades, and on the neck and in the interspaces are flying birds and insects.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain transfer-printed in black enamel
Brief description
Vase of porcelain, transfer-printed in black enamel, and with an ovoid body and concave neck, made by Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, ca. 1770
Physical description
Vase of porcelain, transfer-printed in black enamel, and with an ovoid body and concave neck, and on one side is a landscape with a monumental fountain and ruined buildings, with two figures crossing a bridge in the foreground, and the sea is in the distance, and on the reverse side is printed with a view of ruined classical colonnades, and on the neck and in the interspaces are flying birds and insects.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.2cm
  • Diameter: 10.5cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
The landscape is copied from an engraving by Francis Vivares, published in 1752, after a painting dated 1701 by Pierre Antoine Patel
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Bradbeen, Lowestoft, for £3 in April 1869
Subjects depicted
Other number
Sch. I 627 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:489-1885

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2009
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