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

Vase

1880 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase with bulbous body and tapering neck. Hard-paste porcelain covered with an orange red glaze, with plain gold bands.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain, glazed and gilded
Brief description
Vase, hard-paste porcelain with orange-red glaze and gilt bands, Sèvres porcelain factory, Paris, France, 1880
Physical description
Vase with bulbous body and tapering neck. Hard-paste porcelain covered with an orange red glaze, with plain gold bands.
Dimensions
  • Height: 33.7cm
  • Diameter: 15.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
Mark on the bottom for the year of 1880
Credit line
Given by Mons. le Ministre de l'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts
Collection
Accession number
171-1881

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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