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Ewer

ca. 1825-30 (made)
Artist/Maker
H. & R. Daniel (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Staffordshire (made)

Ewer of bone china, painted with enamels and gilded. Ovoid body rising from a group of rushes and surmounted by a figure of a swan, the neck of which forms the handle, and the outspread wings the spout. The rushes and swan are gilded on a white ground. The body is painted on either side with flowers on a pale yellow ground.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Ewer
Materials and techniques
Bone china, painted with enamels and gilded
Porcelain
Enamels
Painted
Gilded
Brief description
Ewer of bone china, painted with enamels and gilded, H. & R. Daniel, probably ca. 1825-30
Physical description
Ewer of bone china, painted with enamels and gilded. Ovoid body rising from a group of rushes and surmounted by a figure of a swan, the neck of which forms the handle, and the outspread wings the spout. The rushes and swan are gilded on a white ground. The body is painted on either side with flowers on a pale yellow ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Single Proveins Rose' (Written in red on the base)
  • 'Ever-blowing Rose' (Written in red on the base)
  • 'Auricular' (Written in red on the base)
  • 'Convolvulus or Bind-weed' (Written in red on the base)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
One of a pair with C.559-1935
Acquired as Coalport. For another of this shape see C.558-1935
Production
The shape is copied from a pair of Sèvres porcelain ewers of 1781 in the Royal Collections that George IV bought in 1812
Subjects depicted
Flowers
Rushes
Swans
Bibliographic references
  • Peter Luscombe, '2012 Challenge Cup Winning Swan Lipped Ewer', Daniel Ceramic Circle Newsletter, no. 31, May 2013, p. 9
  • To see the original Sèvres design see Brunet, M. and Préaud, T., Sèvres: Des origines à nos jours, 1978, p.117, pl. LIV.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.559A-1935

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Record createdJuly 16, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1135411/ewer-h--r/
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