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

Urn

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

Urn on a pedestal of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Inverted bell-shaped with a circular pedestal foot mounted on a columnar plinth of square section. Decorated with boys as satyrs, as handles, and holding garlands of green leaves suspended between them. The base is decorated with gadrooning picked out in puce.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Urn on a pedestal of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Zürich faience and porcelain factory, Zürich, ca. 1775.
Physical description
Urn on a pedestal of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Inverted bell-shaped with a circular pedestal foot mounted on a columnar plinth of square section. Decorated with boys as satyrs, as handles, and holding garlands of green leaves suspended between them. The base is decorated with gadrooning picked out in puce.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Z' above three dots (In underglaze blue)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Claude W. Heneage
Object history
One of a pair with C.21A-1953.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.21-1953

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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