Vase
ca. 1758-1762 (made)
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Vase of soft-paste porcelain painted with dark blue and colours. Octagonal and with an elongated inverted pear-shape body expanding at the base. Trumpet-shaped neck. The facets of the body are alternately dark blue and painted in colours on a white ground. Painted with a shepherd boy playing a flute in a plumed hat, mauve cloak and orange-red breeches, and a shepherdess in a flowered dress with a guitar. The remaining two panels are decorated with birds on rowan sprays.
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Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted with dark blue and colours |
Brief description | Vase of soft-paste porcelain painted with dark blue and colours, Chelsea Porcelain factory, Chelsea, ca. 1758-1762 |
Physical description | Vase of soft-paste porcelain painted with dark blue and colours. Octagonal and with an elongated inverted pear-shape body expanding at the base. Trumpet-shaped neck. The facets of the body are alternately dark blue and painted in colours on a white ground. Painted with a shepherd boy playing a flute in a plumed hat, mauve cloak and orange-red breeches, and a shepherdess in a flowered dress with a guitar. The remaining two panels are decorated with birds on rowan sprays. |
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Credit line | Bequeathed by Miss Florence Augusta Beare in memory of Arthur Doveton Clarke |
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Bibliographic reference | Mallet, J.V.G., 'Chelsea Gold Anchor Vases, I: The Forms', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, Vol.17, Part 1, 1999, p. 134, fig. 13-14 |
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Accession number | C.1017-1919 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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