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

Ewer

ca. 1752-54 (made)
Artist/Maker
Vauxhall Porcelain Factory (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Vauxhall (made)

Ewer of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Of rococo silver form with a handle in the shape of a dragon. Painted with sprays of flowers in panels of scrollwork picked out in pink and gold.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Ewer
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Porcelain
Gilded
Painted
Brief description
Ewer of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Vauxhall porcelain factory, Vauxhall, ca. 1752-54.
Physical description
Ewer of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Of rococo silver form with a handle in the shape of a dragon. Painted with sprays of flowers in panels of scrollwork picked out in pink and gold.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.6cm
Credit line
Given by E. F. Broderip, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Dragon
Flowers
Scrollwork
Associated object
c.1337-1924 (Pair)
Bibliographic references
  • Spero, Simon. Vauxhall Porcelain - A Tentative Chronology, Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 2003, Volume 18, part 2, pp. 349-372. 'The rococo vases, the remarkable large dragon-handled ewers derived from contemporary silver and the moulded pedestal cream jugs, all exhibit a measure of rococo exuberance entirely absent from the more conventional domestic output of the later 1750s', p.357.
  • Michael Snodin assisted by Elspeth Moncrieff (eds.) Rococo, Art and Design in Hogarth's England, Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, 16 May-30 September, 1984. See catalogue G9, p. 110 for a silver sauceboat with a dragon handle in the Ashmolean, Oxford, dated to circa 1740. Charles Kandler is suggested as the silversmith responsible for their manufacture....'Such dragon handles were part of the French baroque repetoire...'
  • Gabszewicz, A and Freeman, G. Bow Porcelain, The Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman, Lund Humphries, London1982. See fig. 36 for a Bow sauceboat of c. 1750 with a dragon handle.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.1336-1924

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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