Vase and Cover
ca. 1770-1771 (made)
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Vase of porcelain painted in enamel colours and gilded. With raised gilt swirls on foot, two gilt double-scroll handles and gilt scrolled handle on cover. Maroon/dark pink ground with central white reserve with painted flowers including rose and pansy. The reserve on the opposite side is painted with lovers by an urn, with two cupids with flame and arrow. The man removes his mask and puts down his watering-can and staff.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Thrown and turned porcelain painted in enamel colours and gilded |
| Brief description | Vase and cover, enamelled and gilt soft-paste porcelain, probably manufactured by William Duesbury & Co., Derby or Chelsea, c. 1770-71 |
| Physical description | Vase of porcelain painted in enamel colours and gilded. With raised gilt swirls on foot, two gilt double-scroll handles and gilt scrolled handle on cover. Maroon/dark pink ground with central white reserve with painted flowers including rose and pansy. The reserve on the opposite side is painted with lovers by an urn, with two cupids with flame and arrow. The man removes his mask and puts down his watering-can and staff. |
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| Content description | The source for the scene of erotic disguise from classical mythology is a plate entitled ‘Vertumne metamorphose en vieille, rend Pomone sensible à son amour, malgré l’indifference q’elle affectoit’, after François Boucher (1703-1770), engraved by Jean Jacques Leveau (1729-1786) Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807) from Les métamorphoses d'Ovide : en latin et en françois, avec des explications historiques, Livre XIV - Fable 9, Paris, 1771. A version of the engraving is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection, accession no. 17.3.1702 |
| Marks and inscriptions | indistinct but including numbers "12" and "14" (ink) |
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| Accession number | C.175:1, 2-2003 |
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| Record created | January 8, 2004 |
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