Vase
19th century (made)
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Vase of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with blue enamel on a yellow ground. Pear-shaped with a flaring mouth, wavy edge and spreading circular foot, on a square moulded plinth, and two narrow loop handles on the shoulders with formal leaf attachments shaded and picked out in gold. Painted on each side in a pear-shaped panel, reserved on a yellow ground and bordered with gilt rococo scrollwork, with a cupid partly draped in a cloak and seated on clouds holding a mirror and a trophy with a bow, quiver and tambourine amidst clouds.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded |
| Brief description | Vase of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, France, 19th century. |
| Physical description | Vase of porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with blue enamel on a yellow ground. Pear-shaped with a flaring mouth, wavy edge and spreading circular foot, on a square moulded plinth, and two narrow loop handles on the shoulders with formal leaf attachments shaded and picked out in gold. Painted on each side in a pear-shaped panel, reserved on a yellow ground and bordered with gilt rococo scrollwork, with a cupid partly draped in a cloak and seated on clouds holding a mirror and a trophy with a bow, quiver and tambourine amidst clouds. |
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| Gallery label | Gallery 128 Decant 2003
Probably a 19th-century fake of a Sèvres piece.(07/06/2004) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by D. M. Currie |
| Object history | Acquisition type: Bequest |
| Production | NB note in Register says Sevres vases of this shape were not made with square bases. Date uncertain; not Sevres. Shown to the French Porcelain Society by Ros Savill November 2002 when it was compared with the only other example of this shape, but with circular base, pink ground and apparently of hard paste: both were considered 19th century; the blue painting and thin yellow ground were also compared with the authentic sugar bowl C.388-1921. |
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| Accession number | C.386-1921 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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