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

Vase

ca. 1775 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Hexagonal in shape and painted with bright-coloured birds perched on branches and insects in small panels with gilt borders of rococo scrollwork reserved on a ground of scale-pattern in blue. Mounted with a foot and rim of scrollwork united by two leafy handles rising above the rim, in ormoulu.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, gilded and mounted
Brief description
Hexagonal vase of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, Bristol porcelain factory, Bristol, ca. 1775.
Physical description
Vase of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Hexagonal in shape and painted with bright-coloured birds perched on branches and insects in small panels with gilt borders of rococo scrollwork reserved on a ground of scale-pattern in blue. Mounted with a foot and rim of scrollwork united by two leafy handles rising above the rim, in ormoulu.
Dimensions
  • Height: 38.7cm
Credit line
Bequeathed by Herbert Allen
Object history
One of a pair with C.615-1935. Formerly in the collections of R. Walker of Bath, W. Romaine Callender, and Alfred Trapnell.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Mackenna, F. Severne, Champion's Bristol porcelain. Leigh-on-Sea : F. Lewis, 1947.
Collection
Accession number
C.615A-1935

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Record createdJuly 29, 2009
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