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

Vase

ca. 1760-65 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase or bottle of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze and with applied decoration. Ovoid shape with a long-neck, and the neck has a bulge below the rim, which is slightly out-turned. Wedge-shaped foot rim. Decorated with four descending chains of flowers and leaves applied in high relief. These curve inwards towards each other at the bottom. Horizontal bands of flower-heads round the lip, above and below the bulge in the neck and round the foot. On the front is painted a figure in a landscape with a castle in the background. A large butterfly is above his head. On the reverse are figures of two Chinese sages below the branch of a tree. There are sprays of flowers painted on the sides and sprigs on the bulge of the neck.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze and with applied decoration
Brief description
Vase or bottle of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze and with applied decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, Bow, ca. 1760-65
Physical description
Vase or bottle of soft-paste porcelain painted with underglaze and with applied decoration. Ovoid shape with a long-neck, and the neck has a bulge below the rim, which is slightly out-turned. Wedge-shaped foot rim. Decorated with four descending chains of flowers and leaves applied in high relief. These curve inwards towards each other at the bottom. Horizontal bands of flower-heads round the lip, above and below the bulge in the neck and round the foot. On the front is painted a figure in a landscape with a castle in the background. A large butterfly is above his head. On the reverse are figures of two Chinese sages below the branch of a tree. There are sprays of flowers painted on the sides and sprigs on the bulge of the neck.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 27cm
Object history
One of a pair with C.15A-1975.
Probably formely collection of Dr John Ainslie (see References)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • For another pair of this shape, but painted in enamels, see Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain: the Collection formed by Geoffrey Freeman (1982), cat. 163 (where dated ca. 1765)
  • Probably the same pair illustrated Watney, Bernard. English blue and white porcelain of the eighteenth century, 2nd ed., London: Faber and Faber, 1973, pl. 17A, where dated ca. 1760 and credited as formerly Ainslie Collection
Collection
Accession number
C.15-1975

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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