Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Vase

ca. 1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of tin-glazed earthenware with relief decoration and painted with enamels. Ovoid shape with a low outward-curving neck. The relief decoration consists of human masks between paired rococo scrolls terminating in eagle's heads and festoons of fruit and leaves. Painted decoration consists of rococo scrolls intertwined with flowers.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with relief decoration and painted with enamels
Brief description
Vase of earthenware covered with a tin glaze and with applied and painted decoration. German, possibly Hochst, about 1750.
Physical description
Vase of tin-glazed earthenware with relief decoration and painted with enamels. Ovoid shape with a low outward-curving neck. The relief decoration consists of human masks between paired rococo scrolls terminating in eagle's heads and festoons of fruit and leaves. Painted decoration consists of rococo scrolls intertwined with flowers.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26.7cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Stuart Gerald Davis
Historical context
Note in Register: In the opinion of Mr. Michel Oppenheim of Mainz this piece is not Hochst.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.127-1951

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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