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

Vase

1895 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Pear-shape with angular handles and tall neck. The neck is moulded towards the top and picked out in gilding on an orange-buff ground. The body of the vase is decorated with an even Cerulean blue and decorated with a design of ferns, grasses and ginko leaves in raised gilding and red enamel.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded
Brief description
Vase of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Worcester porcelain factory, Worcester, 1895
Physical description
Vase of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Pear-shape with angular handles and tall neck. The neck is moulded towards the top and picked out in gilding on an orange-buff ground. The body of the vase is decorated with an even Cerulean blue and decorated with a design of ferns, grasses and ginko leaves in raised gilding and red enamel.
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A crown surmounting a circular symbol round which are set two dots followed by 'Royal Worcester England' and two dots (Printed in brown)
  • 'x' and '10' (Impressed on the base)
  • '942' (Impressed)
Credit line
Given by W.H. Maund, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.65-1969

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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