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

Vase

1867 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of pear-shape, with slightly broadening neck which is joined by two loop handles to the body; the latter rests on a square platform raised on four simulated pieces of square timber. The whole is formed of a pale greyish sage-green porcelain, coloured in the body, over which the body has applied white porcelain decoration of a wattle-fence behind which are seen to grow roses and other flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with applied reliefs and glazed
Brief description
Vase, porcelain with applied reliefs and glazed, Minton & Co., Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1867
Physical description
Vase of pear-shape, with slightly broadening neck which is joined by two loop handles to the body; the latter rests on a square platform raised on four simulated pieces of square timber. The whole is formed of a pale greyish sage-green porcelain, coloured in the body, over which the body has applied white porcelain decoration of a wattle-fence behind which are seen to grow roses and other flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14.6cm
Marks and inscriptions
'MINTON', '1316', an asterisk and the year symbol for 1867 (Impressed)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss B. E. Chambers
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.79-1971

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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