Vase
ca. 1775 (made)
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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
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Mackenna, F. Severne, Champion's Bristol porcelain. Leigh-on-Sea : F. Lewis, 1947. |
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| Accession number | C.615A-1935 |
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| Record created | July 29, 2009 |
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